Order In The Classroom

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kids that I saw. There defiantly needs to be some .
This brings me to the 1979 essay written by Neil Postman entitled "". In this essay he addresses the decaying lack of control that teachers have over their students.
No longer are the days of the rule do not speak until you are spoken to. The rule it seems now is that the student now has more of a right to speak than the teacher does. But perhaps the biggest difference that I have noticed between High School and College is the way students behave.
In College students no longer run their mouth off in class and they have more respect for the teacher. The teacher also has a lot more control over the students that just one year ago were unruly high school seniors that thought they knew everything. Well almost any college freshman that you ask will openly admit that they do not know every thing. In fact it as if they're real education is just beginning. Because now the student no longer goes to class because he has to but he goes ...

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they are structured was set up for children of the 19th century. These children had respect for their teachers because they were treated like adults and expected to treat their teachers in turn. They also were not subjected to the constant media environment that shortens the attention spans of today's youngsters. The child's current lack of self-control can also be attributed to the dissolving family environment. The family is dissolving because of the increased rate of single parent families and when two parents are present very often both of them hold jobs, which decreases the time that they have with their children. The decreased amount of attention is often the reason why parents have ...

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