Initial thoughts of paper

When we were first assigned this paper I knew it was going to be difficult. My problem whenever I have an assignment when you can pretty much choose your own topic, is that I have a problem trying to pick one and focus my paper on it. It took me about 5 days of brainstorming to see which topic would be interesting to write about, finally I decided to write about the motives of the education system. Then I had to pick the authors...I knew the essay from Lisa Delpit would be helpful but I had trouble thinking what other author would be helpful. So then I chose Theodore Sizer. Some things I am going to write about is the skills vs. fluency, open classroom vs. traditional style of teaching, and just the same repetition of the school day.