Abstract

As a main argument for this paper, I would like to talk about the issues of education in today’s society. I will use the stories “From Silence to Words: Writing as a Struggle” by Min-Zhan Lu and “Skills and other Dilemmas of a Progressive black Educator”. In Lu’s story she grows up and attends school during the communist revolution in china, but under Lu’s household she gets taught a western education by her parents. Her western education almost turns out bad for her because the government bans English from the country and becomes enemies with England and the U.S. In Delpit’s story she struggles with her teaching style because when she’s teaches in an open classroom her black students don’t do well while her white students excel. In her traditional setting her black students do decent but her white students still excel. I will also talk about how the similarities and differences between Lu’s and Delpit’s pieces and any way I can relate the two pieces to each other.