Blogpost 9- We Make the Road by Walking, Chapter 3 Ideas

“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.