Yue Li
In the book that Delpit wrote, there are opposite opinions on the points that Gee gave to us. In Gee's book, he was agree that the way to acquire literacy is much better than the way of learning, because people can acquire during life and it is like a born ability, once people remember all the literacy knowledges then it is hard to be erase. Students could learn it through the environment around them, and the way of studying will not be that boring and hard. The only weakness of acquisition is it will take a long time and many steps to finish, it is much harder than learning.
But in Delpit's book, the opinion about how to study has changed, he thought that the student could learn even better than acquisition if the teacher gave them the right reason to encourage them. It happened on black people and the students who does not have a good environment to grow up, maybe parents are both uneducated. The right way to teach them is to tell the students how tough the world is, and tell them the world will not always leave the door open for them if they do not work hard, the only short cut is to work hard. And there are some examples in the paragraph, like the student in medical program and the black student in the football team, they knew their situation clearly and they knew the only thing they could do was to study. Those kids found they can do great under pressure, so when they are lazy, they can just find something to encourage them, give them pressure, it is also a great way to study literature.
Another point is the students should develop their "own voice", they should have their own opinion about what they are writing and learning. But the opinion should have strong reasons to support, and it should not be reject all the time blindly. The teacher should treat the like the same, color and family is not the problem, they should not influence the way that teacher treat each students. So the language that the students and teachers are using is important.
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