Cuckoo Giroux

I think I have been spoiled in the aspect that I have always been in a school environment, well since middle school that promotes learning through experience and developing skills that will be useful in the real world. I really feel like through being actively involved has really enhanced my learning experience, I don’t know how I would have learned other wise. I also believe that this was only because I went to school that was so small. With a graduating class of 24 we were able to do so many more things that the public education system. With the focus being on personal achievements students learn so much more in the long run, while immediate outcomes are not always clear, but it should be important of who they will become rather than if everyone can score high on standardize test and meet all of the general requirements.



This reading highlights certain points that I have been making all last week when trying to fight to keep our house by explaining that through having us live together we are gaining experience that cannot be taught through reading a textbook. We are learning form past and our mistakes to improve what we have. Giroux writes, “providing the students with the opportunity to develop the critical capacity to challenge and transform existing social and political forms, rather than simply adapt to them.” While we do not do this on an external level, we are still learning through having the opportunity to challenge what is already in place. Through being in a local sorority we have to transform certain aspects to make things work, we cannot adapt to what has been done in the past because we would fall apart. We have to take everything and learn from it through actively being involved. Also with being small everyone has more of a chance to get involved in some aspect. Last year I had a position because I was nominated, it was something that I probably would not have stepped up to do but decided to anyways. It is through having a small part that I have decided to take on larger roles and become more of a voice for us. We have taken what Gioux is saying about our education system and have shown how it is effective.