The Myth Of Average Summary

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Being Average The video entitled, “The Myth of Average”, explained the current problem in our education system. He starts with a story about fighter pilots that he uses to relate to the same problem that our schools are facing. While the problem in the air force was a pilot seat designed for an average size, the seats never worked. This education system does the same thing; however, the school system does not focus on body size, but it focuses on educational talents. Therefore the problem is described as a flaw in the education system that focuses on an average student’s learning abilities rather than focusing on edges, or strengths and weaknesses. Before I watched this video, every video represented people with disabilities in a direct way, but this video represented them in an alternative realistic way. The content in the video connects to many of my personal experiences, my special education book and our reading book, “Far From the Tree”. …show more content…

Although the video did not show a direct case of a disability, it still represented disabilities in a realistic way. At first I did not believe the video was going to represent children with disabilities at all, but then the speaker, Todd Rose, switched to a focus on student who are weak in areas. The first thing that came to my mind was autism, because sometimes children with autism can be very intelligent in some areas, but lack talents in others. Now that I saw the connection between the video and some disabilities I have learned about, I chose to say the video definitely represented people with disabilities. People with disabilities are definitely not average, but they are talented in their own unique way. Since this video explained the myth of being average, I believe it related to the myth that every child is the same, and current knowledge argues that children are the not the same