In this week's lecture Dr. Jendian talked about the way that teachers teach in our society. Dr. Jendian mentioned that teachers use textbooks as a way to teach their classes, but U.S. textbooks are uninformed about our own government. When teachers just use textbooks to teach their lessons they're not allowing students to explore and struggle in the confusion. Loewen makes a statement that says that he thinks that education is the same everywhere. He says that education provides allegiance, socialization (the etiquette or norm to function in society). Dr. Jendian mentions that teachers shouldn't follow from point A to point B. Teachers shouldn't have to follow a script they should decide what they're going to use in their classroom and customize it to…show more content… Textbooks should be used more as guides than to strictly teach a class. Loewen mentions that students are always taught lessons from history books and at the end of each chapter they have to answer a ton of questions about what they have just learned. When teachers make students do these types of tedious work the students don't connect with the material that is being taught. They simple do the assignment and forget everything that they have just learned. Dr. Jendian made a comment that says, "if we only focus on cognitive we don't develop it if we don't trigger the emotional aspect of it." Teachers need to ask students questions that get them thinking like, "Whose viewpoint is being presented? Where is the speaker or writer located in the social structure? What interests, material or ideology does the statement serve? Whose viewpoints are omitted? What are you not being told?" When students ask these types of questions they are allowing themselves to be, "crap detectors" as Loewen calls it. By being "crap detectors," we are able to distinguish the truth from fallacies. Loewen made an interesting point about the September, 11 terrorist attacks. Loewen (342) says, " Emotion is the glue that causes
