Out of the Cave
Kaitlyn Zeichick
An Explorative High School Writing Course
Introduction and My Motivation When I was trying to figure out what topic to pick for this assignment, I thought about taking a specific problem in education and trying to solve it. I thought about ways to make online learning more engaging and I thought about how to keep women and minorities in math and…
The Importance of Feeling Heard
There’s been some overlap between the topics of my classes the past few weeks, a focus on the power of feeling heard. In this class, we read Freire’s insistence that “to impede communication is to reduce men to the status of things” (128). Understanding the oppressed by acknowledging and listening to their realities is the…
Recess versus Classroom Games
In Chapter 4 of John Dewey’s Experience and Education there was one quote that struck me because my life experience didn’t align with what he was saying. Dewey wrote, “As long as the game goes on with reasonable smoothness, the players do not feel that they are submitting to external imposition but that they are…
Harnessing Altruism
In Experience and Education, John Dewey says that a bad educator is “unfaithful to the fact that all experience is ultimately social” (38). The role of the teacher is to interact with students, rather than treat them as sounding boards. Don Finkel then added that interaction between students is equally important. Students spark ideas in…
Talent versus Passion
Socrates emphasises over and over again that in order for his kallipolis to exist, everyone has to have a job that fits their natural talent. He says that if anyone does a job that they aren’t naturally suited for, “these exchanges and this sort of meddling bring the city to ruin” (434b). What happens if…
Kinds of Good and Education
At the start of Book II of Republic, Glaucon talks about three different kinds of good: category one is stuff that we do for its own sake even though we don’t care about what comes out of it, category two is stuff we do for its own sake and that also has something we want…
How to Tell Someone They’re Wrong
One part of the class discussion that stuck with me was Abby’s comment that Socrates’ method could be harmful to his interlocutors. The way he debates is aggressive and off putting, and not only do his interlocutors leave knowing less about the topic they’re discussing than they’d known before, but they also feel worse about…
Socrates and Probabilistic Theories
In cognitive science there are two main theories to explain how people categorize objects and ideas: prototype theory and exemplar theory. According to the prototype theory, people have an ideal, typical member of a category in mind that they use to compare to a new object. It’s like the “center” of the category, and even…
Introduction
I’m Kaitlyn Zeichick and I’m a senior at Scripps College. Although I love fuzzy blankets and eating popcorn while watching Netflix (I’m currently binging “You” and “This is Us”), I’m most at home when I’m outdoors. I rock-climb most weekends, making excursions out to Red Rocks, Yosemite, Malibu, Big Bear, and anywhere else I can…
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