Baldwin's Essay: The Purpose Of Education

" The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to critically .". I have looked over, analyze, identity appeals, in these three passages about education. Each author has discussed the educational system, and it has changed in the time and the effect on the matter. Emerson (1803-1882 ), one of the most America's most influential thinker and writers. Secondly, Prose, she was born in the late 1940s, she was a reporter, essayist, critic, editor, and a mother. She has also written more than twenty books, from poetry to children literature. Finally, Baldwin, born in New York city in the year of 1924, and died in the year of, 1987. He was an American writer and a social critic. Each one of these authors used rhetorical appeals

". Prose understood the meaning of literature, and get the meaning out of the text. For the audience, this gave a sense that Prose, know what she is talking about teens education from a critic viewpoint. To explain that teens are not learning the meaning behind the literature. " The purpose of education, finally, is to create a person the ability to look at the world for himself .". Baldwin is explaining that education created a person that looks at the world with endless of success, and opportunity. This goes back that, teens are not understanding literature, and that literature lesson that deals with real life situation. Baldwin, a social critic, gives his life experience through the passages; as a result, he has understood the meaning of education and its true purpose. " I believe that our experiences instructing us that secret of education lies in respecting the pupil .". Emerson, explain to the teacher that children learn many different types of way, and you have the let them made mistakes to

She is stating that in high school need to understand literature that would eventually help them in future college, Therefore, she would like that many, or all school to teach kids the meaning of literature. Baldwin states, " Now if I were a teacher in this school or any Negro school, and I was dealing with Negro children .". Baldwin is saying that if he had the opportunity to teach African American students, he would have taught them real education to understand the world, and how to overcome it. It explains that how some teachers, just give out the standard books and never discuss it with teens, and there is a teacher that actually prepared their students for the world. Secondly, all the authors use figurative language to express on learning point of education. For example, " everything that constitutes style and that distinguishes writers, one from another, as precisely as fingerprints or DNA mapping .". It really says that every writer is different to/from the smallest way. That no one is the same, even the slightest