1. Emerson describes his view of an ideal education to be one where the teacher shouldn't just focus on what they have to say, but allow the students to participate and discuss their thoughts and opinions. They are to be respected for their opinions not only by their fellow classmates, but by the teacher also. He also believed that there should be passion within education, since that passion is what drives the students to learn more and seek more information, more answers.
3. I'm not entirely sure what this quote means in all honesty. What I got from it is that it's better to teach a perfect subject that has no need for reform than an imperfect subject that can be changed into something else years from now. I'm not sure if that was right though...
5. I didn't even know what a bureaucratic institution was. So, these institutions, first of all, do not focus on the descriptions of Emerson's idea of the ideal education. The learning experience doesn't fuel their passion, but drain it. The students are there with a purpose of passing tests and preparing to live in the real world(doing all of the business stuff, just work, no passion or creativity whatsoever). People don't learn much in these institutions besides how to imitate everyone else to survive reality.
1. I think Emerson was saying that thinking things through on our own comes naturally and we "enjoy" it, but imitating everyone else's thoughts instead of creating our own is something that we, by nature, don't like to do.
2. It's a paradoxical statement because in order to become a genius, you have to dive deeper into the topic, collecting and understanding the information thrown at you. You have to dig deeper(like a drill) in order to gain the wisdom and knowledge you need to become the genius you want to be.
3. Emerson used an extended example of an actual person who supports his thesis, since his life reflects Emerson's thoughts and beliefs about education.
5. The natural method that Emerson mentions seems to be the little things that people will take an interest in, a topic that piqued their curiosity, and they learned with passion and determination by masters who were also passionate about the subject at hand.
8. I don't even understand what the quote is saying...I don't know what to say, he feels like it would be useless to change the ways of teaching to a more natural method, because if he did, it would no longer be a natural method, but a systematic one?
9. A person's will, when inside a system similar to the bureaucratic institutions, kind of gets tossed aside. It no longer matters what you want, but what the man in charge wants instead.
10. "Even so, by observing the routine ways of people and the consequences that soon follow after tends to invoke this fear/idea that stopping someone from doing something terrible is worse than just letting it happen."
11. It was a way in speaking directly to us, that way we weren't just reading some kind of essay where someone babbles on about their beliefs, but they actually try to connect with you while doing so as a way to get you to connect with the text a little more(?).
12. Emerson's tone of the essay was pretty formal, professional, as if he were talking to fellow adults, maybe teachers and professors at schools and colleges. Parts of it almost felt like a story where you're reading endless descriptions about a child's life before all of the important action stuff starts happening, but overall, it was a formal piece.
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