Sympathetic Delpit

Research can not account for what is true for every individual. Delpit expresses this throughout the article. Every time she is put in a situation where she is applying her research in teaching, it fails for a certain group of children. She expresses how much she was dependent on research in the begining of her article when her family would tell her, "I didn't ask you about what any research said, what do you think?" This statement haunts her throughout her teaching career. Everytime Delpit is faced with the research vs. reality obstacle she has a major internal conflict in deciding which is best for her students. I sympathise with Delpit in this conflict. Everyday we are taught things that may not nessecarily comply with actual life. Research can never fully encompass how every individual thinks or feels. So what do we go by when real life situations arrise that we were taught about in a certain class? What do you think? Exactly, what do YOU think. No research can ever overide a persons critical thought in a situation. I believe it is best to go by instict which is not nessecarily throwing out the textbook and your college education but rather combining both your thought and research.