HW 45

From my understand of both texts it seems to me that Hirsch believes that schools should teach students about more than enough stuff when their in elementary school before they hit high school. Hirsch said in the an article,"not every child is learning about James Monroe in the first grade." Which i agree with because not even i know who James Monroe is. And then for Sizer he believes basically that teachers should make things somewhat easier for the students but not to easy of course because then what would be the point of learning from mistakes. Sizer said in Horace's Compromise " Keep the structure simple and thus flexible." Basically stating that teachers should make the structure of their class of course easy but understanding.

Yes both Sizer's and Hirsch's theories both contradict each other because Sizer wants teachers to make their structure simple but flexible like he stated in Horace's and Compromise. But on the other hand Hirsch says that he thinks that teachers should be teaching their students more facts in first grade so that they basically know more than what they should know. If they both adapted together they should both work out hopefully because then students would do better at school than what students are doing now. Students are usually lost when it comes to politics because they sometimes use metaphors in place of things and a kid who watches it is completely perplexed. But if Hirsch and Sizer come together as a whole students would basically have a better understanding of things. And understand what the hell is going around them instead of them being dumbfounded.