Delpit

I actaully found this article by Lisa Delpit to be quiet interesting. I like how she wrote and responded for much of her article, to Gee's which we had previously read. My favorite thing about this article was the she told little snippets of stories of people she knew, such as "Marge," who learned another discourse; when everyone had the mindset that people ecspecially african americans are stuck with the discourses they are born with. However like the story stated Marge went and proved them all wrong and learned and became excellent at writting research papers after she was taught by "Susan." A quote I really liked from the article that I think should pretain to everyone not just aferican amerians was, "the one thing people cant take away from you is what's between your ears." I really liked this quote because its true, people can try to change who are as a person or try and change everything about you, but they cant change your brain. It's yours, YOU and only YOU can pick to change something about it. This article was also interesting to me because it reminded me of the special ed kids I worked with my junior and senior year of high school. Most teachers thought because they were special ed they wouldnt be able to learn something the rest of the class was learning, however I found after working with them they can learn, and they want to learn, if someone will take time to teach them! This article made me think alot about schooling and the different types of people in the world today.