te for grades. This ultimately makes the classroom become a battlefield for intelligence.Positive reinforcement provides the environment with advancement to education. When a student gets an answer correct the teacher puts perhaps a happy face or a check mark followed by a good job. This inevitably tells the student that this is the norm in which to gain recognition. This will make the child benevolent and wishing to acquire the same status over again. Now the child has been conditioned to make the right response. If the child is capable of the problem, fear is diminished. In contrast to that is negative reinforcement. As suggested in Holts story Often one of the most painful punishments a child can suffer in school. In any case the child who has made the mistake knows he has made it, and feels foolish, stupid, and ashamed, just as any of us would in his shoes (458). This brings a sense of self-doubt and makes a person less attractive to learning. With positive reinforcement one is more apt to want to learn. Many teachers still teach very conditionally and old fashioned. They make redundant tests, read boring lectures, and provide little outside sources. This is by no means a wrong method, because things are being taught. But it does not bring a chance to expand in the classroom. In order to learn children have to ask questions, and be set free. Some teachers teach what they are told to teach and nothing more. If they are constantly under barrage to comply with the curriculum, they lack essential time that could be used to explore other sources of information. Children want to know about a lot of stuff, but school only offers what is felt required. This makes schooling boring for children. Holt even admits to his own causation for this I even devised special kinds of vocabulary test, allowing them to use their books to see how the words were used. But looking back I realize that these tests, along with many of my ...
