Educational Problems among Different Ethnic Groups

First of all, this blog looks boring. I was thinking why is he adding a picture of a pit crew in an education theme? Plus, the whole blog design is full of cluttering and is very difficult to navigate through or search for new things. HOWEVER! The reason I fell in love with this blog is because of his writing methods. He uses amazing stories and analogies to refer how an educational organization must be improved: “The classroom should be like a well maintained car and administration should be like the pit crew.” It is a very creative thought to say that an educational organization as a racing team and pit crew. I can realize that he is giving a specific setting and imagery of how a classroom and administration must be. These few integration of words grabs the attention, and makes the audience to imagine and think the situation. Moreover, he shows actual pictures of a racing team with an explanation of how an organization must act similarly as this team. In other words, he makes his stories understandable with clear pictures and accessible very easily. Although he has some kind of formal writing, his pausing strategy and phrasing is well organized and if it is read out loud, the readers’ individual way of speaking method changes. It is like a “magic.” In his voice, diction, rhythm, punctuation, and writing-but-speaking way of writing are the most effective tools that drag readers’ attention. First, his accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound are arranged in a slow and soft way generating a poetic diction.

         “Paperwork to be written but never read. 

 Time in meetings that are meaningless."

Second, one of the cool things that I can realize is that he has a “musical” rhythm going on with his initial sentences with separate paragraphs:

“To me, times are lean and mean… We must be efficient and lean.”

Additionally, he is frequently bolding words in black not only to drag important opinions and facts, but to create a heavy sounds and tones on different parts of sentences.

Third, he uses punctuations as a long-pause technique that gives the reader to have a time to rest with a deep breath to show a disappointing expression:

“Every person is so necessary that they do the jobs of at least a person and a half. And yet, there are always those who are taking up space... at every school.”

Last but not least, and most importantly, he writes his blog as if he is talking to the reader. While reading his post, I felt as if I were actually in a coffee shop chatting with him drinking a cup of tea. He explains and speaks his opinion on how should an educational charity must be asking questions, giving commands, and suggesting answers:

“If you're not helping the cause of education, you're hurting it… if you're asking teachers to do more with less, so can you…Take a hard look at the pit crew -- are they equipping and helping the classroom improve or siphoning off energy and weighing it down. Ask the teachers, they'll tell you, that is if you REALLY want to know.”

It clearly engages the reader. He absolutely makes the audience exciting to share other opinions comparing and contrasting with schools and racing team. After posting this blog, he was waiting for people to give additional information and thoughts to eventually have and actual conversations with them sharing ideas, and giving other suggestions.

I have to admit, he gave us a very creative analogy, just like other readers I had to nod my head over and over. Instead of just saying seriously of what a school administration must improve on, he was actually having a conversation with the audience and sharing an interesting story to make audience excited.

By: FUSION