Essentialism and Experience

This blog is in response to the reading on essentialism and experience.  The author is describing how certain traditional concepts, ideals and skills are necessary to society and should be taught to everyone.  This article also places a high degree of importance on connecting experiences of different students together, as well as connecting these experiences to the material being taught.  The author says how students are more likely to participate when they have a specific experience related to the material.  The article as describes the struggles black women have to go through in school and that white males are ignorant which i don't fully agree.  this article was a fairly difficult read and i got the feeling that it was almost a close reading similar to the ones we had to do in class.  Overall it was a pretty interesting article.