Bad behavior is contagious which will effect students in every American schools to follow and they will not value their education more than they should.  Teachers are suppose to be a role model to their students and if they can't do that, students won't recognize how important it is to take their education seriously.  They won't be able to learn because there is no positive influence that's given from the teacher and therefore, the bad attitude from the teacher is what the student will become. 

The careless attitude of a teacher will show students that learning is boring which will unmotivated them and causing them to question why they're attending school in the first place.  Careless teachers are passive and not passionate because they don't touch a child's mind and aren't influencing their students positively but abandoning them.  Passive teachers don't tend to teach actively and so they don't have the capability to build a foundation for students to succeed.

Teachers take advantage of students because they aren't in a class room to prove that education is key to every student's success in the future.  Apathetic teachers see students as their paycheck and so they don't fulfill their duty to teach and go over the objectives of certain subjects that students should be learning or reaching the criteria in which students are suppose to get out of a class.  And they tend to put students second because they only care about their salary and therefore, they don't see students as the future. 

Response to TED Talk Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution

I really enjoyed watching the video. I thought It would be boring but his concepts and ideas really grabbed my attention and it gained my interest to keep listening becauses he spoke about many things that I can really relate too. Robinson informs us that we tend to make poor use of our talents which is really true and like kids and students, I believe that our dreams are being stumbled on. There isn't enough support and assistance from parents or teachers who are making us feel comfartable to present our true self and doing what we want to so istead, we endure it because we don't enjoy it. He made me think of my future career because it's accurate that passion will motivate me for the rest of my life and I don't feel like I'm able to show bits of myself, to express what I'm really passionate about to my family member because they might take it as a joke. I know I'm not alone and it's minority of us students whose passion is being judged and stigmatized which is no help in improving ourselves to recgonize what we're really good at. And like Robinson said how five minutes will feel like an hour when we are doing what we dislike, but five minutes will feel like an hour because we are so focused and passionate about doing what we love. I do want to persue in a career that relates with my interests because from doing what I love, I will value it more rather than feeling like it's a job. Robinson also convey how WE are obsessed with getting people into college and that reminds me of everyone in my family member. People in general want their kids to go to college and yes I get that it'll help us students in the long run, but sometimes we don't need to, maybe not right now and we can choose to later because our life isn't only based entering a University and graduating with a college diploma. Like parents are so obsessed and preaching to kids about getting educated in order to get in a professional career, to make a sufficient amount of salary. I get it but from what parents are doing, it doesn't help one bit. It doesn't motivate us to figure out how much our values and quality really means to us and so we try to please others in doing what they want us to or what they wanted to be in the past. Americans are so focused in forcing kids into the work force and hoping that we one day prosper and so it doesn't enable us to bring our passion into it and letting us figure out what we love doing. Furthermore, I really liked how Robinson said that life isn't linear but organic. I guess he's trying to convey a message of how life isn't about following a set of rules, like a straight line that will lead us to one place, to the same place. Life should be more organic, with no preservative so my life and everyone's else should be more original, more of our own taste and it's more about creating our life symbolically with our own talents than to be what everyone wants us to be just like how fruits and veggies should taste one way in order to please and give satisfaction to whoever's eating it. I really recommend undecided majors like me and people to watch this video because there's no doubt that one will relate to it the way I did.

Oanh Hoang

Monique Williams

English 1A

9/4/13

The Passion Project intersects with our writing assignment, Rule Of Three by communicating the relationship between teachers and students and focusing on the acts of disobedience in an educational setting. They both connect because on our Tuesday's assignment, we have to develop a focus about something in our educational system and my statement, It's important that we keep careless teacher's away from American schools. I believe that careless teachers are bad role models because being careless leads to bad behavior and it will effect student's attitude on how they feel about learning and they won't fulfull the responsability to teach. Watching the Passion Project, students also explain that teachers don't put enough effort in teaching, motivating students to learn and getting back up once they fail. When in a classroom, teachers are only teaching and it's never enough because there's no passion presented to the student, "they never told us about the books they read, talents they had, hobbies they loved, or beliefs they held(p. 63)Thomas." Students will know passionate teaching when they see one because it's effective. For instance, Thomas had a teacher who stood in front of him for six years but he didn't see a model in her, what it meant to be a lifetime learner. Students can't benefit greatly without seeing what their teachers are passionate about because passionate teachers talk about their passion to students, act like partners in learning, and moreover; creating curiosity within students which will build confidence in them than watching teachers do and say things. Students learn more if they like you and if can't make an effort to bond with them, they can't feel comfortable to share and participate actively in class. Besides talking about passion, teachers also need to prove that it's there. During Thomas's free time, he would peek on new teachers and "glance at their bookshelves and the posters on their walls. I hope to find evidence that they can bring themselves-their pasions-into a classroom(p. 64)Thomas." Thomas wanted to see that teachers bring their passion into their classroom, proving that it's tangible for students and not just something they hear about. Teachers need to remind students that their passion will motivate them for the rest of their lives and by having or talking about their favorite book, poems, etc., proves that the teacher's values are shared with the rest of the classs. Furthermore, to create an attitude for students to relate to so they can learn things about themselves and to teach others to grow by getting out of their comfort zone. Briefly, teachers across America needs to step up their game by presenting more passion in order for students to feel that learning is fun and education will bring them success in the future.

Thomas, Jerelyn. "Teaching with Passion." Education Digest Vol 73.3 (2007):

63-65. Academic Search Premier. Web. Nov. 2007.

- The blog space reflects me just fine I guess since I'm new at this blogging thing.  It's been awhile that I get to customize my own social networking account because I remember doing all the editing and customization back when my friends and I all used the Myspace website.
-  There are many important things in my life.  My family always come first and along with my education.  It's important that I pursue my education and continue school because I want to succeed in the future and besides, I wouldn't want to disappoint my family, including myself.  I am passionate about traveling, food, art, music and animals!
- I'm in school because I know it's a chapter of my life that I'll have to finish although school is my least favorite thing.  I'm in school because my family wants me too, not like I'm saying there is a choice.  I need to continue my schooling because I want to earn my bachelor degree at Chabot and transfer to a UC, hopefully soon.
-  Attending English 1A, I hope to improve on my critical thinking and become a better writer.
- I value my loving family, my wonderful boyfriend, and my precious life, and my education because without these things, I would be nothing.