becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repe
woah it makes so much more sense now to how the education systems work.
teness and become a hollow, alienated, and alienating verbosity. The outstanding characteristic of this narrative education, then, is the sonority of words, not their transforming power. "Four times four is sixteen; the capital of Pará is Belém." The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means, or realizing the true significance of "capital" in the affirmation "the capital of Para is Belém," that is, what Belém means for Pará and what Pará means for Brazil.
interesting how memorization is a huge part of the educaton system which should be changed because i dont think that its a good way of learning things. i thing applying things to the real world is way more helpful
when folks dont get no jobs or get fired or whatever cuz they talk and write Asian or black or with an Applachian accent or sound like whatever aint the status quo. And Fish himself acquiesce to this linguistic prejudice when he come saying that people make theyselves targets for racism if and when they dont write and speak like he do
i truly believe that society shouldnt normalize this. because all it is doing is slowing down society and its progress
Rule 1: Black English is about a whole lot more than mothafuckin. A s a criterion, we decided, "realistic" could take you anywhere you want to go. Artful places. A n g r y places. Eloquent and sweetalkin places. Polemical places. C h u r c h . A n d the local B a r & G r i l l . We were checking out a language, not a mood or a scene or one guy's forgettable mouthing off. It was hard. For most of the students, learning Black English required a fallback to patterns and rhythms of speech that many of their parents had beaten out of them. I mean beaten. A n d , in a majority of cases, correct Black English could be achieved only by striving for incorrect Standard English, som
this is a very important passage because it goes to show how different the black english is from regular english. it gives many places of where you would hear it.
The first time I hearcl two women, a Puerto Rican and aCuban, say the word"nosotra.s," I was shocked' I had not knownthe word existed. Chicanas use nosotros whether we're male orfemale. lWe are robbed of our female being by the masculineplural. Language is a male discourse
i dont think this is true for everybody. because i have heard nosotras and all words have a feminine side to it. i just think she has never heard it implying nobody uses it.