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A Sword In The Stone - Term Papers

A Sword In The Stone

Education has been the key to success for many centuries and its principles haven't changed much. Teachers have different ways of teaching just as students have different ways of learning. Although teacher and student interaction is a very important part in education, I believe that a student should be given some room to learn by experimenting on his/her own. That is what I think a education should be, not only from book to student, but from student to whatever is out there in the open world. In The Sword in the Stone, Arthur's education is very interesting; in a way, very similar to my point of view on what a real education should be, but in an a way very different.
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philosophy, which I agree with, he told Arthur "The way to learn it's by listening to the experts." This quote leads to another of the many experiences Arthur had, the one with the hawks. This one was only so that Arthur had a chance to see other's point of view and to see what these experts (the hawks) did different.
What Merlyn tried to accomplish with these real life experiences was to show Arthur the bases of values and morals. Arthur was getting so used to learning that when he was punished in his room for three days, he wanted Merlyn to give him something to do because he thought that he was going to go weak on his head. After some begging by Arthur, Merlyn took advantage of what was happening to give him the lesson by turning him into an ant. During this experience, Arthur learns not one, but a great deal of things. First, he learns that he has to learn to make decisions by himself when he is trying to choose a tunnel to go into. Then, once in the adventure, he ...

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Added: 10/24/2005 04:57:10 PM
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