Christina, When we were ending our discussion on Never Let Me Go, you brought up a question that we never got to talk about: “How are we like the kids at Hailsham?” Or, it was something along those lines. But, honestly that got me thinking. Personally, I thought throughout the book that the kids were only given only so much information about the world outside of their environment so they wouldn’t get caught up in curiosity and start to ask questions about life or why they were donors. I think it worked, because I didn’t feel like they really question the guardians about anything. The guardians just told them things about life and about the world and they never really had anything to say about it (other than understanding if the guardians wanted them to have sex or not). I just found that to be interesting, because I think that we as students, especially in high school or the lower grades do the exact same thing. Mostly as students we sit in our desk and absorb information. We just believe that our teachers know the answer. I don’t think many of us stop to think about that our teachers can only teach us so much and they have opinions. Whether they are political, religious, or anything of the sort, they have opinions. I feel like it takes a special type of person to be able to teach something they are passionate about without a bias from their personal opinion. The best example about what I’m saying is last year was my first year of college and it just so happened to be an election year. When I went home one weekend before the election, I was at my friend’s house and her dad and I were talking about politics and the election. He’s extremely Republican and well, I’m not. Anyway, I remember telling him some fact that I had learned in class and he just laughed in return. I was like what the hell?! But he said where did you hear that? And I told him that I had learned it in a political class I was taking and he said, “Do you always believe your teacher?” I just had to stop and think for a second, I had never really thought about that. As sad at it seems that it took me so long to realize, I now think twice about what my teachers tell me that could be opinionated. That is why I believe that we are like the students of Hailsham, in that way at least. So thanks for opening my mind up to that! P.S. I hope you recovered quickly from Wednesday :)
Christina,
ReplyDeleteWhen we were ending our discussion on Never Let Me Go, you brought up a question that we never got to talk about: “How are we like the kids at Hailsham?” Or, it was something along those lines. But, honestly that got me thinking. Personally, I thought throughout the book that the kids were only given only so much information about the world outside of their environment so they wouldn’t get caught up in curiosity and start to ask questions about life or why they were donors. I think it worked, because I didn’t feel like they really question the guardians about anything. The guardians just told them things about life and about the world and they never really had anything to say about it (other than understanding if the guardians wanted them to have sex or not). I just found that to be interesting, because I think that we as students, especially in high school or the lower grades do the exact same thing. Mostly as students we sit in our desk and absorb information. We just believe that our teachers know the answer. I don’t think many of us stop to think about that our teachers can only teach us so much and they have opinions. Whether they are political, religious, or anything of the sort, they have opinions. I feel like it takes a special type of person to be able to teach something they are passionate about without a bias from their personal opinion. The best example about what I’m saying is last year was my first year of college and it just so happened to be an election year. When I went home one weekend before the election, I was at my friend’s house and her dad and I were talking about politics and the election. He’s extremely Republican and well, I’m not. Anyway, I remember telling him some fact that I had learned in class and he just laughed in return. I was like what the hell?! But he said where did you hear that? And I told him that I had learned it in a political class I was taking and he said, “Do you always believe your teacher?” I just had to stop and think for a second, I had never really thought about that. As sad at it seems that it took me so long to realize, I now think twice about what my teachers tell me that could be opinionated. That is why I believe that we are like the students of Hailsham, in that way at least. So thanks for opening my mind up to that!
P.S. I hope you recovered quickly from Wednesday :)