Writing sample started by: (use third person narrative)
Once upon a time, there was a small and intelligent boy in the tiny village. He was a special kids actually. His behaviors were basically different compared to other normal kids. He acted like a great explorer, scientist, historian, and even president. One day, when he became the middle school students, he decided to travels somewhere since the small village was too familiar and boring. He put some stuffs in his large bag and say goodbye to his parent. Since he didn't have a map, the continuous road was his only friend. At first, he visited the capital of the nation.
However, what had been awaiting him was not what he had been awaiting. As if a dramatic turn of a Greek tragedy had shocked an audience of five-year-olds with the boy being on of them, the boy's eyes were filled with immortal glare of sudden dizziness by facing the very first world of different color compositions. Never in his life he saw a man dying cringed at the corner of the street. never in his life he saw a mad man screaming "The apocalypse in near!" running around like a drunken ax. never in his life he heard such an uncomforting harmony of people talking with all the words spitted out with anger and dullness. Gray skyscrapers, gray steaming cars, gray pavements, gray breeze, and gray wild flowers spontaneously bloomed in the crevice of the pavements, He took his first deep breath in that world and the shade of gray drowned his everything. Into the deepest part of the ocean. Hard to breathe. It wasn't only the (acmplexions) at the people. The lights! God damn them! Lights at all colors and brightness that he wasn't need to. Everyone (two words) carry little flashlights except they kept touching the bulbs and the colors would shift and change. Everyone seemed to have a flashlight tethered to their head. And whenever touching their lights, they would stare in stand almost (one word) They would (one word) good (scarecraws), he thought. They boy didn't stop, not even once. He kept on walking, passing through all the shades of grey and light. Liveliness in his face started to fade away.
P.S. Sorry, Mr.Garriock. There are some words that I couldn't read at all, so I marked them as blanks.
2017년 3월 30일 목요일
2017년 3월 23일 목요일
Revisionist History Ep.4 - Carlos doesn't remember
Carlos, who is the
main character in the podcast episode “Carlos doesn’t remember” represents poor
but highly intelligent students in advanced countries. In the entire lecture,
Malcolm Gladwell points out a few things to help the students like Carlos by exemplifying
the man named Eric. This episode described the educational inequality (or
inequality of chance to have education) in U.S.A. very well. However, this
unbalanced situation in not limited on the boundary of U.S.A. As I mentioned in
the above, students like Carlos keep suffering and waste their superficial
ability due to a harsh educational system in South Korea.
At the beginning
of an episode, Gladwell temporarily mentions the policy in university for the
poor. The system wasn’t actually effective to save students like Carlos, but
the importance of having those systems was attested. However, that basic system
for the poor but smart students doesn’t work well in modern South Korea. In
fact, only a few universities offer the policy to help the poor but intelligent
students to enter their school. Even the condition of the system is worse than
the system in U.S.A.
Let’s look at the simple example. Seoul National University is the highest school in the world university ranking among the universities in South Korea. However, according to the 2017 administration policy in SNU, only 160 students can be the one who enter SNU by applying the policy for poor. Unfortunately, entire freshmen in the year 2017 was over 2500. It means that students like Carlos are the minority, even this amount refers to 0.6% of all freshmen students. Because of the limitation in the educational system of South Korea, students like Carlos must compete each other to become beneficiaries of that policy.
The next point is
about the overall educational system in South Korea. According to the episode,
80% of the students like Carlos in U.S.A lose their academic potential at the
age of teenagers. Despite that horrible rate, over 35000 students are selected
as a potential one after becoming teenagers. Throughout this analysis, figuring
out students in early ages, providing suitable education to students and
leading them in the right direction is more important than other matters. Surprisingly,
these two subjects aren’t existence in modern Korean educational system. Today,
Korea’s educational system composed with the elementary, middle and high school.
Most of the children get the same quality of education and they grew up similarly.
During the period of elementary, students like Carlos should be treated
differently. However, the education system in Korea strongly focused on the unification
of all students. The problems are the lack of private institutions and wrong
common beliefs of Korea: “Special isn’t special, normal is the best thing in
your life.” Uniqueness and differentiation is regarded as useless and social
maladaptive.
Unbalanced opportunity
and limited freedom to be a special makes South Korea weaker than past few
decades. To be a real advanced country and to enhance the aspect of civic awareness, South Korea must fix the overall modern education system.
2017년 3월 20일 월요일
Revisionist History Ep.3 - Peer Pressure
Sudden development of technology in last decade has been affected to the importance of
peer pressure. Social networking service applications like Facebook or Twitter,
forced their users to know the daily life of their friends, teachers and even
the celebrities. Comments, likes, and reactions from the posts reflected the
common reaction in the society. Not to be a stranger, not to be an outsider,
each member of the society has started to consider the “Peer Pressure”, the
social eye.
This
situation frequently happened in South Korea related with the students in
teenager. In fact, few days ago, I read quite interesting article from the
“TIME”. The link of the article is in the below. Amid of the article, the term
“peer pressure” appeared to explain the harsh reality of Korean students. The
phrase “All we do is study, except when we sleep” in the article surprised me
and helped me to decide the topic of this reflection. Academic peer pressure in
Korean society; competing each other, not helping.
Academic peer
pressure caused the problem not only in the society of children but also in the
entire economic circumstance in South Korea. Another link in the below and the
chart showed terrible situations happening nowadays. Overheated competition
between students forced themselves to go to private academy to beat and survive
in the harsh school environment. Surprisingly, the term “prerequisite learning”
is normally used by the person who learned pedagogy. But, in South Korea, most
of the parents loved to use this word and even the students talked each other
whether having a prerequisite learning or not.
Unfortunately,
KMLA always suffered from these problems, the academic peer pressure and the
private learning. At first, balanced academic peer pressure in elite school
always regarded as a requirement. However, the most important point in premise
is it should be “balanced”. In KMLA, few domestic students often have nickname
started with “GyeonJae” (Translated to check in English). As you can guess,
those nicknames came from their inhumane behavior. For those students, the test
scores and overall reputation as competent students were considered for the
first priority in their life. Every students in South Korea should keep in mind
the dual-aspect of the academic peer pressure.
The next
point is the private learning. Even though school policy tried to prohibit
private learning of the students, most of the domestic students and even
international students preferred to have private learning rather than unsupervised
learning. Yet the writer of the following essay have refused to have AP or SAT private
learning after entering the KMLA. For the case of international students, they normally
decided to have private learning since SAT or AP tests are quite unfamiliar type
of studying for them. However, to survive and to compete with other domestic
students, private learning is more than recommended things to the students in
domestic field. IT IS THE EASIEST WAY TO SURVIVE IN KMLA.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2094427-2,00.html
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