For this post I choose
an article from the section of opinion, I choose this one because that I found
interesting the headline, “Male and female brains are the same, but people are
all different – and that gives me hope” by Deborah Orr, maybe is not quite
related to my area of study but I think that in education, mostly with kids in
their first years, a teacher must to have an open mind in what concerns to
build his own identity and this article talks about how the society teach us to
build this identity from the other’s opinion.
In this article the
author talks about new investigation about this area that concluded that even
if our brains, male or female, are quite similar, is a social feature from
humans to want to make a difference between genders, and even if we had the
same react to an event, we need to distinguish and put a label, something like “this
is a male feature” and “this is a female feature”.
Nevertheless, the
investigation also talks about other curious fact: even when humans want to be
unique, and make a difference from others, we don’t like to be alone in this “uniqueness”,
always we are looking for someone else similar to us, and in the most of the
cases we don’t do it consciously, for example we “choose” our friends based on
similar experience we had in the past, etc.
All this ideas, and
others more, the author related, I found interesting cause if we keep in mind
the actual education in the word, we have to be more conscious about the effect
that had in kids the opinions and prejudices that we made.
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