Indian Education

When Alexie went back to the reservation, his family wasn’t surprised to see him. They’d been expecting him back since the day he left for Seattle. For example, “there’s an old Indian poet who said that Indians can reside in the city, but they can never live there”(web). That’s as close to the truth as any of them could get.Mostly, Alexie would watch television. For weeks, he flipped through channels, searched for answers in the game shows and soap operas. His mother would circle the want ads in red and hand the paper to me, and Alexie felt boring in the reservation. His own mother asked him what he would rest his life, but Alexie didn’t respond accurately. There were little nothing to become in the reservation and the mother was asking him

Alexie explores the significance of reservation heroes. When compared to regular, or “White” heroes, the difference between them is clear. As explained by Alexie, “In the outside world, a person can be a hero one second and a nobody the next” (pg. 48) and “Indians need heroes to help them learn how to survive” (pg. 49). In simpler words, these quotes imply that foreign heroes physically save people and reservation heroes emotionally save people. The story shows that there is a constant expectation of failure. This is modeled through Adrian and Victor’s conversation about Julius Windmaker, a basketball

Alexie suggests that people should not limit themselves based on stereotypes of their environment or backgrounds. The author supports this by claiming, “A smart Indian is a dangerous person…” (6). Here, Alexie is showing that when someone overcomes the stigma surrounding them, they can be a force to be reckoned with. Alexie also discusses the personalities and habits of Native kids. He states, “We were Indian children expected to be stupid…” (6). He then goes on to describe how Indian children struggle with basic reading in classes but can seem to remember dozens of traditional Powwow songs. Lastly, Sherman Alexie also alludes to how Indian kids are expected to fail in the non-Native world. “Those who failed were accepted by Indians and...pitied

“Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie. In the article “Indian Education”, Alexie attends junior high school and a farm town high school in a neighboring community from his home. He faces with insurmountable of cruelty from his teacher Betty Towel, bullied by his peers, and he still become a great accomplisher. When it seemed like nobody cared for Alexie, Mr Schluter, his fourth grade teacher who gives him hope, the hope of becoming a doctor and to top it off he eventually gained a friend, a best friend to be exact, Randy, the new kid who taught Alexie, the most valuable lesson about living in the white world, always throw the first punch.

In the ending paragraph he writes, “These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids.” These two sentences certify all that he has said previously. For all the reader knows, Sherman Alexie’s whole story was full of dramatic and heartwarming events just to create a good paper. And as a reader one should understand that he not only needs to establish himself as a writer, but also as a struggling Indian boy living on a reservation. “… a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington State. We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by reservation standards. I had a brother and three sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope fear, and government surplus food.” Alexie gains our trust by establishing himself as a struggling Indian

Adjusting to another culture is a difficult concept, especially for children in their school classrooms. In Sherman Alexie’s, “Indian Education,” he discusses the different stages of a Native Americans childhood compared to his white counterparts. He is describing the schooling of a child, Victor, in an American Indian reservation, grade by grade. He uses a few different examples of satire and irony, in which could be viewed in completely different ways, expressing different feelings to the reader. Racism and bullying are both present throughout this essay between Indians and Americans. The Indian Americans have the stereotype of being unsuccessful and always being those that are left behind. Through Alexie’s negativity and humor in his

Racism has great effect on how both Indian men gain access to a proper education. Alexie says, “A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike. I fought with my classmates on a daily basis”. (495) “We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid”. (495) He was the only

Sherman Alexie is an award-winning author who wrote the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The book is a semi-autobiography of Alexie’s life and his experience growing up on an Indian Reservation, as well as a more economically well-off school, where he was the only Native American student. The book gives readers the opportunity to get an idea of what life is like living on an impoverished reservation. It depicts the struggles of young Arnold Spirit Jr., or Junior, as he is known on the reservation, as he grows up living a double-life, or as he says “as a part-time Indian”. His struggles include dealing with poverty, alcoholism, and racism, all while trying to make something of his life. The book, which has multiple themes discussed throughout our online course, is a great way for people who have no experience with reservations to understand what life on one is like.

Alexie is a Native American who grew up in America with some difficult times. He grew up on a reservation and fought bullies at his school. Alexie wrote a few poems about that, and also about playing basketball, family, friends, and relationships. They were all put in separate categories, like the ones about relationships and sex were in its own category. The most recurring theme in the poems though is about his culture and identity. Not even just his own culture, but everyone else’s around him. One poem called “Size Matters” is about how the size of people really matters in the everyday life. Another is about appearance, called “Scarlet,” where he talks about a waitress who had terrible acne on her face and wondered why she did not have a clean face. Most of the poems are very honest and opinionated, even though it can sometimes be harsh and brutal. But growing up as a Native American in America, he probably had this abuse a lot and reflects it on others sometimes. Any way though, he grew up and became a very mature and respected adult. Some Native American’s may not have had that privilege. Alexie found ways to put up with his life, get by, and enjoy it the best he

Sherman Alexie is a popular author and poet who uses his work to evoke emotions. He uses his literature to express his identity of being both Native American and Caucasian. All of his work uses personal experiences and feelings so that you can almost personally sense the pain and struggle Alexie has felt. He grew up on a reservation with a father that wasn’t around very much. Many of his works deal with ignorance, loss and acceptance and the want he has had in the majority of his life. In his interview, he talks about the duality of being stuck between Native American worlds and White American worlds. He says that he feels he can enter conversations with either and get the secret tidbits that others might not. His understanding of both worlds

It seems odd then when Sherman Alexie, who has a firsthand account of what it's like to be a Native American, seemed to have further solidified these stereotypes in his short story, “The Only Traffic Light on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore”. Upon release of this story, Alexie was hit with immense backlash stating he did nothing but further cement the unrealistic and incorrect views we have on Native Americans. Critics not only declared his representation on what it’s like to live on a reservation, but stated his characters, Victor and Adrian, dehumanized Native

In the short story “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie the theme that is represented in each grade is racism. Throughout Alexie’s life he experiences more and more accounts of racism in school. Also, Alexie experiences levels of hardship as he gets older. Thus, the story’s theme statement could be summarized that racism enables hardship in one's life.

In class we read a short story, Indian Education by Sherman Alexie. It talked about an Indian boy, Victor, and his schooling experience. It talked about how he was in a school that wasn’t getting him very far in life, so he bettered his education by going to a better school and coming out the valedictorian. He did not let himself live in his past and live in the shadows of what people thought Indians should be like, instead he proved them all wrong and made a future for himself. How does this relate to our assignment of writing a personal essay, well I relate to Victor in a sense of choosing to stay in a place that I would fit in or to go out into the world and better myself.

Today the world has progressed in leaps and bounds in every field of study but we continue to face a value crisis. Despite high academic qualification, some people are involved in brutal and mindless terrorism and other antisocial activities. The academic qualifications have not created a cultured person and a worthy citizen. This shows a low level of Emotional and spiritual intelligence. This is where the role of the teacher becomes more significant. A teacher with high level of Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence can provide guidelines for living from a soul-level and attaining self-fulfillment in both one 's work and private life. A teacher should be a guide, philosopher and friend to the student. As such, the teacher inevitably becomes a role model to the students. It is in the elementary stage that a child starts inculcating and forming his own value system. Therefore, elementary teachers have a strong hand in shaping the child’s value systems. Only a teacher with high Emotional and spiritual intelligence in her can develop them into good personalities. The present paper discusses about the importance of Emotional and spiritual intelligence in Indian Education .and its

Education system in India dates back to the Indus Valley civilization which saw the birth of new culture. This period is referred as the Vedic age, as the Vedas were composed during this time. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata gives lot of information on the life of the people and the education system. We learn in the Vedas about the gurukul system which played an important role during that period.