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= Group 3 = Claiming an Education I found this article by Adrienne Rich very confusing. I found it dull and could not really follow it. I understood it was about education and connected that to feminist views. I could see that she hit on certain points such as clear thinking and connected education to everyday skills as well. However, this piece compared to the other two I had to focus on, was more difficult and less interesting.

Video Howard Gardner came up with the idea of multiple intelligences in the early 1980’s. This idea is based off the idea that you do not have to be smart in everything to be intelligent. You can be average in one area, not great in another and really smart in the third. This theory includes all different types of intelligence. Gardner believed there are different kinds of intelligences and we are good at some but bad at others. All these intelligences came from different parts of the brain such as language or musical. I really like this theory and found this video very interesting. I like Gardner’s idea that you do not have to be smart in everything to be intelligent. He created a book preaching this information to others.

What does it mean to be Well-Educated? In this article, Kohn debates what it truly means to be well-educated. If it is about test scores and grades in school or to be knowledgeable in other senses. Questions were posed such as, “Who gets to decide what well-educated is?” or “Is it even possible to agree on a //single definition// of what every high school student should know or be able to do in order to be considered well-educated (Kohn p. 1-4)?” This is an on going debate on what this single term truly means. The answer described at the end of the article was, “To be well-educated, then, is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends. (Kohn p.4)” I really enjoyed reading this article. It was in plain and simple terms debating what being educated means and how we decide who is and who is not well-educated. I believe it should not be based off of facts or test scores that it should be based off of our efforts to continuously want to learn new things and allow our selves to. The definition of well-educated should be someone who is always trying and never gives up until the problem is solved. They can apply book smarts to real life issues. I really enjoyed reading this article. It got me thinking about the future and education in general.

All three of these articles focus on intelligence and smarts, how you apply it and where it comes from. They talk about how anyone can do this. These three articles relate in the sense of education as a whole.