American Dream: Romantic & Rationalist 10/25/17

Today in class we continued to talk about Romanticism connecting to the American Dream.  To do this we had to do a scenario where you were either running a rationalist or romantic school.  My group did a romantic school, which we then decided would have outdoor classes, more art classes, life skill classes, no standardize testing, and grading based on participation or little to no grading at all.  For romantics believe grading and tests are artificial and a waste of value.  For students who would want a more rationalistic class would be able to get a class because romantics want to include everyone. 

On the other hand other groups that had rational school had things a little differently.  They would offer maths, sciences, histories, and Englishs.  People would also be able to get college credit to further their future.  As grading goes it would be from evidence.  Extra curricular would also be available.   In another words it could be more of a technical school due to the fact that people go to those schools because they know the career path they wanna go on.  It's logical and to the point at starting your future.  Teachers in this school would definitely stick to the book and not go off task.  Real world classes are important as well like Financial literacy.

We then went on to talk about how more schools take on a rationalist approach, but some schools to have a more romantic way to teaching.  Such as schools out west and schools in Finland who ultimately have a higher education and SAT scores.  As they connect to the American Dream because romantics live in the now and escalate knowledge for life, along with learning what you want when you want.  While rationalists focus on the building onto the future, to go to college, and to get a good job.