Teaching Comparison

There are a ton of different teaching styles that are applied in today's society. In the movie, Mona Lisa Smile, we see probably the birth of progressive teaching. Miss Watson teaches her students that everyone has a choice and that everyone has a right to there own opinion. In the quote from the novel, Hard Times, the speaker talks about how facts are the only thing you need to learn. Also to basically conform and listen to what everyone else tells you to do, say, or think. There are benefits from both of these different methods of teaching. Progressive teaching ,which is what Miss Watson taught her students, teaches people to form opinions for themselves. Which as a result could lead to originality. The novel talks about how facts are all you need to know. Though its to good to have a good foundation of facts to be able to base opinion off of. I believe that both are an essential for an adequate learning experience.