Prewriting Blog #2

Prompt #2

I am choosing prompt #2 to show the connection between anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism and its effect on the American people. Through this anti-rational mindset, people lack the wherewithal to comprehend simple, logical things, adding to their anti-intellectualism. Emerson speaks about those who are not Man Thinking, but are still scholarly and this proves that not all intellectuals are rationalists. Without all of the aspects of a scholar Emerson provides, intellectuals are not rational because they lack an unbiased perspective. This culture of anti-rationalist, intellectuals and anti-intellectuals alike, has shaped America in the world that Jacoby describes in which most are dumbed down and ignorant about important issues.

The primary outcome of this essay is to show the cause of something and then its repercussions, namely on society. First, the cause must be established and then the effect must be supported and the connection must be clear.

My audience will mainly be comprised of anti-rationalists, since the majority of people are so. My objective is to broad their perspective, but not to denounce their beliefs to hopefully bring them out of their anti-rationalism into a more rational viewpoint.

Prewriting Blog #1

Prompt #1

What I find most interesting about the prompt is the fact that this problem is very prevalent in today's world. I am very passionate about the lackluster state of the education system in America and finding ways to improve it. I plan to utilize Freire to show the negative methods of teaching and his ways to fix it and Jacoby to show the long-term effects of poor education and the detrimental effects of a damaged teaching system.

The primary outcome of this essay is to assess and evaluate the problem at hand and to provide convincing solutions to aid in changing the future for the better.

Something I need to consider about my audience is that the majority of them have experienced the Banking System and not everyone will find it troubling, some people think the education system does not need to be changed, and to take into consideration that my experience has been much difference than others who did not experience private education with more focus on Freire’s alternatives.