Blog 12

Sensory knowledge is reliable. It is more reliable then Plato thinks. We base a lot of things on our senses. Our sense of smell bases everything we do, what rooms we will go into, what kind of food we'll eat. Our sense of smell even attracts us to certain people. Our sense of seeing makes us weary of our surroundings for protection. The sense of taste makes us know what we are putting into our bodies. They are all important in our life.

We are not materialistic based on smell. I think we are materialistic based on taste maybe sometimes. I think we are materialistic to be better than everyone else, and so people will want what we have. I think it's a mind thing when it comes to wanting material things. A normal human doesn't have to have any nice things, we just want to look like everyone else.

I don't know how you could even imagine the world without sense perception. That is a thought that is hard to process because I have all my senses.

It would be cool if we had the sense of mind reading. I wish we could do that. It takes a long time to think about what senses we could possibly have, because we already have like everything.

My dreams never make any sense with the real world. Lots of things happen in them that has my brain thinking "huh" because in real life I would never do in real life. Nothing about my dreams would probably be significant to my life the way I actually live.

Every single one of my dreams are crazy. They are abnormal and things I would never even consider in real life. Lots of my dreams break my morals and I wonder why they even happen.

Weirdly enough my nightmares are about my job. I used to have them every night when I would go to bed after work. I think I had these because I worked so so much. One of them I got stuck in and I had to keep cooking burgers even know it was midnight. they told me I wasn't allowed to leave. I kept crying and they didn't care. It was like I was in jail, but a restaurant jail. Those are the most recent nightmares I have had.

People forget most of their dreams because they're either so short or there were no memorable moments in them. Our brain doesn't remember everything because of a certain thing that happens when we sleep.

Dreaming is a mental activity because it happens in our brain when we sleep. It's in a different part of our brain then our thinking for the daytime. That's why are dreams most of the time don't relate to life.

Blog 10

Pernicious effects are stated as woman and men are not equal and woman are supposed to be mothers and not think for themselves. The more wealth you have though the more you can do because woman can be doctors, political leaders and such. People that aren't wealthy though are expected to be mothers and men are supposed to rule their life. I do believe it is a cause and effect relationship on the way they act because the woman in society that aren't wealthy don't really seem to have a place, but they do. She also is saying if men can treat women right then they can learn to love themselves and give true affection to them. Woman can be seen as property in this essay because they said women were charms to men. It said woman advanced in society by their charms and in my mind that means their body, what they could give. Men were the ones who gained most of the respect.

Diversity in schools according to Kozol is taught as history and it should be presented as a modern day issue as well. Most diversity is taught because school's have little diversity to show for. This person believes that Martin Luther King would still say that we have immoral segregation. Teachers are teaching students a lie. My definition would be that school diversity happens more in college than in high school. But I still believe students are taught that segregation is in the past and now we are non segregated. We definitely are still segregated in some aspects especially in the southern states. College is a place where many different races are so it's easier to learn about new cultures on your own. Schools does tell about segregation but it is sugarcoated. 

Woodson means by mis education is that people believe that African Americans were too poor to learn and that they were told that basically "white is right" and they were told that their people weren't good enough. They were told that their people were either self educated or uneducated. No one talks about how they were once slaves and that's what put lots of them into poverty to where they couldn't learn.They have been told what they could do for centuries and what they should do. The author believes there will be no change because of the way the African Americans have been told to live by white people. 

Blog 9

The basis for the pedagogy for Montessori is that we are restricted in schools by desks and furniture and we don’t get a chance to learn different ways. We also are punished and rewarded with objects and he thinks the reward should be the inner happiness and inner learning then physically getting a prize. He said that is too much based on rewards than on your brain. He also believes that punishment is just for shame and that it doesn’t really teach you anything. You should want to do good in your life. School furniture keeps the kids in desks and not learning in the way they want to. Let’s say a kid wants to sit in the floor or stand, teachers don’t allow students to learn in that way and be different. Furniture is a restriction. Freedom he believes will make you learn more and have different inner feelings. He believes in the knowledge of how you work and learn is from the inside not on prizes and punishments.

Dewey says that thinking is grounded in experience and that teachers can only improve the ability of the mind to think. Thinking should be based on personal experience first, then about the actual subject in school. In classrooms that don’t show real world experiences they only learn what the teacher thinks not what they need to know to face the situation in real life. Teaching should be more based on real world then just school. That’s the problem he sees in teaching is that most teachers are teaching wrong. The conditions for thinking should be to let them experience. The introduction to a subject should be something based on something real world like and not academic. Schools don’t always have a way to show real life experiences in the classroom because they just can’t. To think you have to know something and gain knowledge and use that knowledge to figure out something new. Thinking is creative and this is how you make new ideas. The education system is difficult because they don’t have the needs to teach the experiences they need to. Teachers need to teach students to think using real life experiences and then they can teach the material based on that. Teachers should engage students in things that require thinking and not something that has already been thought out for them. Ability to think for their self in real world situations should be the goal for schools.   

Blog 8

I agree with Smith's natural progress of opulence, it still makes sense to today's society too. People where I live are farmers mostly. Farmers and people who work in factories make good money. But some people prefer the farming life over working at a factory. It did become the way he says it did. Everything he says about how the country got rich is correct. The raw goods had to come from the country, then the city made the products and it was a exchange between products. Things still work like that in today's society. 

In today's time what we would see as riches is big houses, nice cars, better electronics. An investment for them would be these things. If I was rich I'd want a mansion, maybe a Tesla, and I'd have the newest iPhone and accessories. Celebrities and wealthy people nowadays use social media to show off all their nice things. Even there are TV shows dedicated to the already famous. 

I believe that Smith is still correct about the way the economy works. Manufacturing is bigger in other countries than the United States, Basically everything we see in stores has a Made in China sticker on it. We can get things from there for cheaper than what we can make it in the United States for. We as a country are still big on agriculture we see fields of corn, tobacco and beans everywhere. Now the new thing is Hemp and that will bring big income to the U.S. I think farming is still bigger than manufacturing even know there are lots of factories too. But in another way I could see foreign commerce being bigger than anything because of the products we get imported in. That is a whole lot of our economy.