Dana Nguyen Ms. Newray ERWC, Period 5 August 28, 2015 Perez’s & Graff Articles Summaries In Perez’s article, Want To Get Into College? Learn to Fail [ Feb. 12, 2012], failure is the most significant, but hurtful step towards a successful life. If a person has never honestly dealt with failure, how can they possibly ever improve or move forward? It is important to learn and be able to solve problems in society, whether it is for academic or not.
In “Want To Get Into College? Learn to fail” (2012), Angel B. Pérez ,Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at Pitzer College, argues that students are not okay with failing and are pressured to only show their success, Perez believes that this problem exist because teachers and parents taught them to only show their success and not to show their flaws. Perez supports his argument with his own personal experience .Perez supports his argument with “I wish I could tell you this is an uncommon story, but kids all over the world admit they are under tremendous pressure to be perfect,” (pg. 1 )
The direction that he is aiming for is the exact one that he is using to build his argument. He wants his audience to agree that the decline in reading will indeed have a negative effect on society. Dana Gioia even went in debt and stated, “ The decline of reading is also taking its toll in the civic sphere.” (P.7 Dana Gioia) He based this statement on a 2003 study about civic knowledge.
He states that if you find the “hidden intellectualism” within them and find a way to channel it into classical work in schools, it would provide a stronger foundation for intellectuals to shine and become “book smart”. If you can find a way to get their Interests to align with the subject matter at
Summary In Andrew Delbanco's essay, College At Risk, he talks about college education in America and at some different points, he compares them to other countries education systems. In the beginning of his essay, the basis of American college education is discussed, and how furthering your education past high school helps us become productive adults. It is also mentioned how college is a place to expand your knowledge and critical thinking skills. It is pointed out that other countries may have a better education system and possibly outperform the U.S. when it comes to certain jobs.
This contradicts with his claim that people will comprehend more of what they are reading if they know what they are reading about.
This is where failure comes in. Sherry proclaims that we need to recognize that this fear of failure is a positive teaching tool. To make this tool work, teachers and parents need to accept that if the student doesn’t learn the material, they must follow through with their promises of flunking. Both teachers and parents have to realize that the future of the child is at stake, and only good intentions come from the
The Pursuit of Grades Over Happiness There are many accomplishments that we have achieved, yet many to achieve, and the race towards them never seems to stop. Well, this is the case for many students because the race towards achieving high grades never comes to an end. Grades are meaningless in the grand scheme of things, as they do not control the rest of your life, but yet are still overly looked upon and can affect a student’s life drastically. However, a poet once said, “Life is not a race, but a journey, to be savored each step of the way” (Nancye Sims).
He continues his speech by suggesting that education should be more educational and teachers should motivate their students more. He uses Senator Ted Kennedy’s evidence-- “... office released a paper not long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was 98 percent and after it the figure never again climbed above 91 percent, where it stands in 1990”. He uses this statement in order to establish a purpose that if people trust Senator Ted then people are willing to trust him. Making the audience feel that they can trust
In the article “Want To Get Into College? Learn To Fail” by Angel B. Perez the main idea was that colleges want to know the real you,the imperfect you not the just the great things you’ve accomplished over the year ,but also the failure you had to overcome. The reason why they want to know this is to see if you can overcome failing a class or two just to how you can you handle this, because life is not easy and healthy,family and money sometimes can get in the way of things but the goal is to make you succeed. Another thing I learned that I think is a main point is that parents are the ones pressuring their children to be perfect. So much that they didn 't want their child to take a risk in a class if there was a possibility for failure.
Taking into account his inability to stay on topic, his short attention span, and his poor grammar, Wheeler’s language leads the readers to believe that he is not educated and is incapable of telling a comprehensible
How to Fail in College and Life In this article, Randall Beeman is trying to use reverse psychology in hopes that students who attend Bakersfield College will take it seriously and give their best efforts to succeed. In his article, Beeman lists the reasons why students fail in college, which also become the reasons people fail at life. He obtained this experience during his time of teaching at the colleges and universities.
He supports this argument by citing a study conducted by students who have attended The University College London. The study proved to us that we no longer thoroughly read material, rather we just skim over most of what we read. From the convoluted works of the late 19th century, to the material of present day, the way we write and comprehend
Students are taught perfection in school and assume that it is needed for college. This article has changed my views on college by showing me that it’s okay to fail or mess up. Angel B. Perez, Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at Pitzer College, explains that finding imperfections in college applications is like “looking for a needle in a haystack”. He states that failure is applauded and cheers when he reads about “defeat and triumph”. Students strive for perfection to a point where it’s difficult for Perez to find any flaws.
Angel B. Perez, published “Want to Go to College? Learn to Fail,” on February 1, 2012 claiming that failure will only lead to success and in order to be recognized by college recruiters you have to accept
