Understanding

From reading what Neito wrote about in, "Lessons From Students on Creating a chance to Dream", I believe that the main lesson to be learned is that teachers, if they are actually interested in teaching, need to know the students on a personal level. Every student said that they appreciated the teachers who talked to the students and got to know them. How do teachers expect to convey information to individuals when they treat them as if they are all clones of one another?

Many of the students reported feeling that the teachers held prejudices about certain ethnic and cultural groups. I think that this problem can also be solved through understanding the student. Often people do have prejudices about others, and almost all of the time this is because they do not know anything about them. When people connect they realize that the preconceived notions that they held before were completely false. Teachers are not perfect and they are subject to these feelings as well. I really think that the main point was that if they are going to be effective, the teacher must fully understand the people they are trying to teach. I think that the established education system has made us forget that learning happens most often on the individual level.