english composition as a happening

Charles Deemer thinks that education and English Composition, as a course, has become too misguided. There is too much of a separation between the teacher and student. Teachers have become too comfortable in their position as leaders and have forgotten what it is like to be a student. The teacher and student gap grows with each passing generation. Teachers no longer try to relate to the generation of students they’re teaching. Charles thinks that the teacher and student should be more united and should see each other as equals in the classroom. They should each participate together in what is trying to be done in the classroom. Students have also changed for the worse.

Students have become less interested in what is being taught. They are more concerned with getting the class over with and done so that they can succeed in their goals. Students are also more willing to accept what their instructor says without questioning it. Deemer thinks that students should be more independent with their education and more freethinking. He thinks education should be more of an experience and less of a lesson. The only way students will ever truly learn is to experience it themselves. It is better to let them experience it firsthand in the classroom, than out in the real world where it will be too much of a shock. To change education as a whole, for the better, action must take place in the classroom between the student and the teacher.