5. "Teaching is Not a Business"

     Education is the building blocks for a better society. Therefore, it is completely relevant for a country to greatly invest in education! Not quite. Society today value the one thing that corrupts the human mind: money. Most people would agree that, although education is important, business is even more important. This concept has corrupted the minds of adults in our society, especially the adults responsible for the quality of education: school teachers. Even school teachers today have been influenced by this concept and now teach with the selfish goal of earning more money. Teaching is in fact not a business. For students to strive, teachers must believe in them and dedicate their time to teach them for their own good and not for money. Education must be taken seriously. Anyone who decides to become a teacher must know for themselves that one teaches to create a better society; to encourage creativity and originality to the upcoming generations, and to encourage and believe in them. Thus, teachers in our society today must remind themselves of the importance of true education. They must reconsider the main purpose of teaching and their role in helping students strive for a better society.
     The author of this article, David L. Kirp, was very effective through his writing. I was very engaged and interested throughout the whole article. The main purpose of his article was to inform and increase the awareness of the changes needed to be made in education today. Yet, proposing his ideas, Kirp uses very good writing which really gets the reader's attention. He uses very few possessive pronouns and directs his argument through research and personal opinions. He uses mostly formal language throughout the whole article, however still makes it easy to understand. The good examples and descriptions of Kirp made the reader associate and relate to the author and his argument. As he himself is a professor in Berkeley, the article felt more credible and he made his argument easy to comprehend as he himself could better relate to the situation. The author was very effective in his writing and clearly transmitted his message through his article. I really enjoyed reading this article as it got me thinking and reflecting on his argument.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opinion/sunday/teaching-is-not-a-business.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostViewed&version=Full&src=mv&WT.nav=MostViewed