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Dr. Gould introduced her theory of “Teaching is impossible” to our class. I enjoyed her overall lecture, it got me to think as well as connecting with my own personal experiences with teaching. I learned her interpretation of progressive education and pedagogy as well as the difference between an opinion and theory.
This lecture reminded me of a book we read in music class in high school called The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Book by Victor Wooten. My music teacher took many ideas and theories from this book and applied them to our class. One of them being: “I cannot teach you anything, I can only show you.”. In other words, he can’t physically make us learn something from him, although he can show us things that we may chose to learn. To me, this connects to Dr. Gould’s theory that “Teaching is impossible” because it is similar to Victor’s “I cannot teach you anything, I can only show you.”, they both have the same general idea. Furthermore, Dr. Gould explained that progressive education is a created environment where students are able to learn without pedagogy, which is a fancy term that really means teaching. So in other words, an environment where students learn without interpersonal exchange. “Teacher’s Pet” by A. W. Strouse is evidence that supports Dr. Gould’s theory. The narrator attempts to teach their feline to use a human toilet but ends up rethinking pedagogy. The cat eventually learns how to use the human toilet, but did the cat really learn? Or was it due to repetition? Finally, I learned that theories are based on evidence, whereas opinions are biased based on the unique lives that everyone lives and they have no real reason. This lead to me thinking after class… Isn’t everything an opinion then? Are facts actually facts or in our collective opinion are they facts? Is everything we say an opinion that others can chose to agree to? In my opinion, everything is an opinion!
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