Observation Education

Audre Lorde has a distinguished style that characterizes her teachers with a demeanor of triumphant harshness. She describes them as people who weren't fond of her color, her over the top actions, and talks of them as people who ridiculed her unless she acted like everyone else. She tried to please her mother after a librarian stirred the interest of reading inside of her, and learned how to print her name. So when the teacher told the class to write the letter 'A', Audre went over the top to please her teacher and wrote out her whole name on the paper, and then her last name on the back. The teacher wasn't pleased and chastised her. After event and event, her parents decided to enroll her in a private school. At that private school, she was treated similarly except she was disciplined harsher. Overall, Audre explains her early teachers as harsh, strict teachers who expected children to follow the exact rules and expected nothing else. I find this way of education very restricting for children's imagination and their God given gift of creativity! Personal opinions aside, Audre provides the reader with depth of scenarios and her own childlike mindset.