“We Make the Road by
Walking”
By: Myles Horton and Paulo Freire
Chapter 3: Ideas
Factual Question:
What is the definition of an idea?
According to merriam-webster.com a medical definition of idea
is an entity (as a thought, concept, sensation, or image) actually or
potentially present to consciousness; as a formulated thought or opinion.
Evaluative Statement:
I feel like a first idea of reading should be, if it not
already is, would be to sketch out, or think out, ideas of the titles of the
books, or chapters, and interpret what it is about before you read it. Ideas as
an entire concept are an incredibly important skill that educators instill in
their students. As educators it is necessary to teach children that there are so
many ideas that they can create and input in the world to make a difference. A
practice that I am passionate about incorporating in my teaching style,
creativity stimulation to produce great ideas and futures in my students. I
have done a lot of research on the benefits of art in a child’s life, with so
many positive benefits of a creative mind. Without the history of these
creative people, we wouldn’t have all of the futuristic technology that we have
today. I can bet that most of the inventors, artists, educators, successors had
history of drawing/painting, reading/writing, music, with so many options of
performing arts it combines a community of creative ideas that stem from an
individual idea.
So using this skill of creating a hypothesis of the chapter,
and my previous knowledge of the book, I interpreted that the two authors would
discuss how their ideas were not always favored by others, and I ended up being
correct. The chapter started off with such a powerful quote, “Without practice
there’s no knowledge.” The whole concept of learning and of life is that it happens
in time, with the creation of new knowledge. The idea of these two authors, is
that they both started off with similar yet different backgrounds and grew to
create similar ideas and became friends and educators with circumstances that got
them to write a story about their successful experiences. A concept that everybody
has knowledge, but the extent of the knowledge is expressed differently with
different individuals.
Conflict can arise when one doesn’t believe in the idea or
action of another person. The right thing when conflict arises, that the
authors expressed, was to view ideas in hopes to get hem heard as well as listening
to and acknowledging other ideas as being that individuals and their right to
have them. Everybody has a right to their own individuality and the way it is
expressed should not concern other people, the person should be concerned in
their own ideas and opinions. Morality comes in when the beliefs have a good
impact on others, and should be exposed to others. The concept of critical
pedagogy and social foundations to me is to have these learning experiences,
from different classes and viewpoints, to help mold our individual educational
policy and practice.
Interpretive
Question:
When the author Paulo says “Do the people have the right or
not, in the process of taking their history into their hands, to develop
another kind of language as a dimension of those who have the power?” The question
is asked by asking if people have the right or not to know better then what
they already know. I think this question is answered in the knowledge of other
ideas with practice, so yes people should know better and know different
concepts that can be formed individually or with the help of an outside source.
