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Lesson Recap
Special shout out to Zi - The only student across all classes who didn't jump to judgment in the images. Ask her why, then you will learn true wisdom!
Your biggest take awy from today's lesson? Comments appreciated.
15 comments:
I learned that people are not who you think they are. Actions, words and looks do not make up a person. It's the mind and heart that makes up a person. A lot of people think Adolf Hitler is bad. I know Hitler does so much harm to innocent people, but he also wants to bring pride to his country again. We make so many assumptions and jump to conclusions too often, you say you have empathy, yet you don't show and practice empathy.
My biggest takeaway from this lesson was that our judgements can cloud our sight. For example, when Mr. Buxton showed us the pictures and had us write what we thought, we all just assumed that the guy with the huge round glasses was geek, that he was a nerd, that he was an easy target for bullies- which just shows us how quick we are to leap to conclusions, and no one would've thought that the guy underwent 12 eye surgeries. Another example is when we saw that woman wearing the dress, we all thought she was wealthy, but none of us actually stopped to go deeper than the surface. We just looked at her dress and handbag and immediately assumed that she was some really successful person. I think this is how racism and sexism happen, because we see someone and already we make judgements about them, try to figure out what 'category' they fit into. We don't really try to go deeper than the surface, or try to get to know them better. We have biases about race and sex, and we just assume. Also, when Mr. Buxton had us finish the sentence: 'The boy was caught stealing....' almost everyone said that he should get punished. When the sentence extended to: 'The boy was caught stealing food....' almost no people changed their answer. However, when the sentence extended one more time to: 'The boy was caught stealing food out of a trash can....' we all changed our answer. We didn't stop to think about the boy's predicament. We just judged and assumed.
I think this lesson really taught me to not just look at the surface and assume, but to go deeper and understand. Thank you Mr. Buxton!
A big takeaway from this lesson is that you should not just make judgements about someone, but take the time to really go deeper and find out the truth and the background of the person. A person's appearance does not shape who he or she is. What shapes a person is what is inside and what they have done, not how handsome or pretty they are or what you think they have done. For example, on the photo of the woman in a dress carrying a bag, so many of us made the assumption that she was rich and had enough money to buy all the fashion she wanted. But, in reality, she actually stole the clothes and did not buy them herself. When you revealed this, I really had to take a step back and think why I made that assumption. I realised that I do make judgements according to appearance and should really take that into account and try to limit that as much as possible. I think this lesson was extremely meaningful, because not only did it teach us how to go deeper and not make assumptions about the character in our books, but also taught us a very valuable life lesson. I never really thought that making a small judgement something could hurt, but now I definitely know that I have to watch what judgements I make and instead of just jumping to a conclusion, should go deeper and really find out the truth about the outcome or person. I also realised that judgements create barriers is life. For example, friendship barriers. If you look at someone's appearance and think that the person looks annoying, you would probably not be friends with the person. But, the person could be a very nice and reliable friend. Because you made a small judgement you missed this amazing friend opportunity. That is also a valuable life lesson I learned from this lesson.
Today, my biggest takeaway was that you shouldn't judge people by their external traits, but should judge them by what's on the inside (Internal traits). When we saw the guy with glasses, we first called him stuffs like a nerd. But after knowing what he was, we saw how bold he stayed even through the toughest times of his life. It also made me realize that we were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us, and wealth classified us.
My biggest takeaway is that when you are judging people by their looks you never really realise how easily you can do it when you are not told to not judge. Before this lesson, I never really thought about how much humans including me can easily judge people and not realise how hurt the people that got judged by their looks can become, just because you never stopped and thought about and you were just like, oh he looks weird, he must be boring to talk to, or he might do weird things because he has Cancer better stay away from him. Thank you, Mr Buxton, for giving us this great lesson and helping us keep awareness before judging an object animal or fellow human being.
My Biggest takeaway from todays lesson is to not come to conclusions before getting the whole scoop. There are loads of stereotypes that people have towards others. We all are not perfect children. We all don't have perfect smart minds. But we can do something to change that. We can learn and identify ourselves as individuals that CAN differ from our family's viewpoints. We live in some type of twisted society that judges people by their skin colour . At SAS we have MANY skin colours. i can say that i am truly blessed to be exposed to these lessons from Mr Buxton that is being not actually being taught and is not actually mandatory for teachers to teach. Mr Buxton , thank you very much for teaching me this important lesson. I really do not have any idea on how much we are about learn about the world this year. All because of my ELA teacher Mr Buxton.
My biggest takeaway from today's lesson was not to judge people without understanding them and knowing who they are. I think this lesson made me understand myself better because I tend to judge people, but I keep it to myself and if I accidentally say something judgemental, it would be in an implicit way. SAS is such a big school and has a huge range of diversity, so we'll need to be careful of what we say because lots kids come quickly with conclusions of people. They may say this because of stereotypes and the social norm.
This lesson taught me to not just judge people by their outside characteristics without knowing them on the inside.
My biggest takeaway from this lesson, is that not everybody stops to ask questions and in all honesty, you shouldn't expect them to. Not everyone has been through enough or learnt enough to do so or do it without having to constantly remind themselves. Coming out from personal experiences, you never know how much someone is hurting and making assumptions about them doesn't make it better. You can never tell who someone is by judging them or reading who they are on the outside. This doesn't only apply to race or gender quality, this applies to the LGBTQ community and everyone you happen to come across. Stop judging. That's all there is to say. Every decision someone makes has a story, don't judge them just because you haven't read. Relating to that, don't judge someone's story by the chapter you walked in on. Thanks for a great day Mr. Buxton.
"She's a beautiful piece of broken pottery. She has been shattered, thrown around and damaged. Some of the harm is of her own doing, but she's picked up her pieces and put them back together again. People judge her by her scars and cracks. They're missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again and the story of how she broke in the first place"
My biggest takeaway from this lesson is that in our everyday lives, no one thinks about what they say and how it affects other people. Therefore, when they are asked if they judge people immediately just by what they look like, they believe they don't, because they've never reflected on it and when they see other people do it, they have almost a negative feeling towards them, knowing that it is wrong. However, it is not until that others point out that we're judging people by our moral compass and the status quo that people realize that they are doing it themselves, and even afterwards that they are told, they continue to judge people by their moral compass. You should never make assumptions on people just by the way they look or any other way you judge people by without knowing who they are truly. It is only when you know their intentions and their stories you can make a proper assumption on who they are, or not even an assumption, but almost a fact because you have learned who they are. My other big takeaway is always question what Mr. Buxton tells you to do to see if it's a test/experiment or not.
The biggest takeaway that I took from this lesson is that I shouldn't judge people or anything without having more information. Judging people just by their race, gender or even belief does not show who they really are. The only way you can really judge people is by having more background information. Just because someone is black or just because someone is Jewish should not be a reason to judge a person. After today's lesson, I think I see people more equally and I don't make as many prejudgements about how people are according to what is on the outside. I really like today's lesson because it not only show how we judge people in our everyday lives, but it has also has taught me to question things before I jump into conclusions.
-Coby
I really appreciate all the deep comments. I hope this lesson will stay with you a very long time.
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