Reading Respnose 5 Article 2

    The education in America is new considering how long other countries have been practicing. America was at one point, very much oriented on manufacturing. This prolonged the necessity of a higher education. Now that America's factory jobs are being outsourced to other countries we must learn how to learn. I see that the solution we have come up with is to manufacture our students just as we have manufactured goods in the past and old habits die hard. I believe we need to take note of how other countries (Finland in this case) have been educating. I don't think we have lost the importance of education exactly but we have been going about it in the wrong way. If we are going to continue down the path of a non-manufacturing country we need to understand that we cannot mass produce students in a standardized way. I believe teachers should be held as higher than CEO's of companies and other high paying jobs that in my observation have not helped this nation in any way at all. It has become a very important job and needs to recognized as such.

Reading Response 6

   I see writing as an art. Like art the rules are there in order to make clear what the piece is. Grammar is very important depending on what it is you are creating. Like a painting marking a point in history the writing should be accurate as it serves a purpose. The Constitution would be an example of a work that should be accurate and precise and in order to achieve this you need rules everyone can understand and a form which everyone should follow. Contrarily a poem with the purpose of depicting emotion or beauty could pass with little or no rules. Like an abstract painting invoking feeling there are no strict lines. This could be because in order to explain a thought or feeling that has no definition cannot possibly be described with defining words. The purpose of grammar is to support your fact not entirely to live by.

Reading Response 7

    When I read this article I first assumed it would be in a very serious tutorial. However I was mistaken as I read on. I found it to be funny in a way I could relate to. There are some points about forgetting the subject matter that I do not entirely agree with. I find that I remember exact dimensions of and specifications rifles I plan to build, it's just something I like. My theory to remember things better is to either make sure that you understand the importance of the thing, or to make it fun. If it is interesting to you then that will be a lot easier to remember, but the down side is most things aren't fun. So I make it a competition. If I have to write a boring paper I want my paper to be the blow all of the others out of the water. But I do love the author's point about subjects with no right answers and found the point about philosophy to be hilarious.