Thinking about education: Freewrite response to anyon

In what ways do your educational experiences reflect Anyon's observations?
My educational experiences in elementary and middle school reflect on Anyon's observations to a certain extent. Teachers did seem like they were very limited in what they taught us and everything had to be in the right order. In math for example, our teacher would have us do the problems on the board and he would watch silently until we were done. Even if we had the right answer but didn't do the correct steps, he would make us re-do the whole problem.

In what ways do your educational experiences contradict Anyon's observations?

Back in elementary/middle school, even though the teachers seemed to limit what they teach, they still seemed to care a lot about the students. I remember all my teachers telling us to work hard and do our best to prepare ourselves for high school and college. They didn't seem like they were trying to keep us in our social-economic divisions in anyway. They encouraged and pushed us to be all we could be.

Free-write on “Group Think”

i) Some benefits of being a follower is that you fit in and aren't looked at as sort of weird, people don't talk smack about you, and you don't get lonely.

ii) Benefits of going with your heart even though it goes against the groups that have influence or control over our lives is that even though these people might be mad or disappointed at you, you will have self-satisfaction. No one can stay mad at someone forever. Just do what feels right in our hearts.

iii) The consequences for following our hearts is that these people who "govern" our lives will be mad and might react in negative ways and people who go against might receive some negative repercussions.