Analysis Of The Tipping Point By Malcolm Gladwell
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Analogies are comparisons of two things in terms of relationships. Malcolm Gladwell uses uses analogies when writing about epidemics in The Tipping Point. He compared two widely differing items or events throughout the Book. Despite what one may think, he was able to explain how similar the two were very well. For example, Gladwell compares the small group of people who owned air walks to the people in Baltimore who delivered needles around the city. He also compared the rise of popularity in Hush Puppy shoes to the spread of syphilis, and then to Paul Revere’s message in the Revolutionary War. He explained how all three of these started with a small group of people involved and spread to epidermis in a small amount …show more content…
Teacher need to be able to relate and care for the children in order to be successful. A group of experts from University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education explains, “of all the teacher elements analyzed by the Virginia group, feedback—a direct, personal response by a teacher to a specific statement by a student—seems to be most closely linked to academic success.” (Gladwell). Being a good teacher has very little to do with the teachers academic abilities but relies on his or her ability to relate and communicate to her students. The gap between good and bad teachers is huge. Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that “the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year’s worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a very good teacher will learn a year and a half’s worth of material” (Gladwell). This explains that giving jobs to academically skilled applicants should highly evaluated and elaborated to make sure the right educators are chosen. This leads to another part in Gladwell's essay about the hiring of teachers. Coming from the idea of Ed Deutschlander, it is suggested that “teaching should be open to anyone with a pulse and a college degree—and teachers should be judged after they have started their jobs, not before” (Gladwell). Many skills need to be tested in the real situation, and this is a great solution to finding the applicant's best fit for a career in teaching. Teaching on of may situations that the process of hiring is highly difficult and
Analogies are comparisons of two things in terms of relationships. Malcolm Gladwell uses uses analogies when writing about epidemics in The Tipping Point. He compared two widely differing items or events throughout the Book. Despite what one may think, he was able to explain how similar the two were very well. For example, Gladwell compares the small group of people who owned air walks to the people in Baltimore who delivered needles around the city. He also compared the rise of popularity in Hush Puppy shoes to the spread of syphilis, and then to Paul Revere’s message in the Revolutionary War. He explained how all three of these started with a small group of people involved and spread to epidermis in a small amount …show more content…
Teacher need to be able to relate and care for the children in order to be successful. A group of experts from University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education explains, “of all the teacher elements analyzed by the Virginia group, feedback—a direct, personal response by a teacher to a specific statement by a student—seems to be most closely linked to academic success.” (Gladwell). Being a good teacher has very little to do with the teachers academic abilities but relies on his or her ability to relate and communicate to her students. The gap between good and bad teachers is huge. Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that “the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year’s worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a very good teacher will learn a year and a half’s worth of material” (Gladwell). This explains that giving jobs to academically skilled applicants should highly evaluated and elaborated to make sure the right educators are chosen. This leads to another part in Gladwell's essay about the hiring of teachers. Coming from the idea of Ed Deutschlander, it is suggested that “teaching should be open to anyone with a pulse and a college degree—and teachers should be judged after they have started their jobs, not before” (Gladwell). Many skills need to be tested in the real situation, and this is a great solution to finding the applicant's best fit for a career in teaching. Teaching on of may situations that the process of hiring is highly difficult and