Labels make it convenient to understand many things, but experience tells me these labels of “English” and “Math Person” are fundamentally misplaced.

1. MATHVS.ENGLISH:
THE STATE OF THE ACADEMIC DETANTE
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LABELS
The academic landscape is
littered with divides.
High School sees people as lumped
into:
Jocks
Band Geeks
Nerds
Myriad of other groups

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LABELS
These labels eventually fade, in college since we have to take classes.
We get recategorized as "English people" or "Math People."
Experience tells us that these labels of "English" and "Math" people are
fundamentally misplaced.

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ENGLISH VS. MATH
These two labels are where the
"academic detante" lies.
Each side:
Extols it's virtues
Argues the inferiority of the other
Generally refuses to budge on its stance
Is caught at this impasse, amassing
people, in the hopes of trying to find that
final nail in the coffin for the other side's
stance.

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LABELS
But the truth is:
Thereareno
"Mathpeople"and
thereareno
"Englishpeople."

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A TEACHER'S INFLUENCE
These categories sit on a
much deeper foundation
where the real divide is:
"Got-It" or "Not-It"
If you are a "Got-It", you
had a teacher that
presented the material in
a way that made sense
If you are a "Not-It"
then... you didn't.

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A TEACHER'S INFLUENCE
The ramifications here do a lot to explain why tutoring can be so
successful.
Private tutoring means the instruction is tailored specifically to meet
the needs of a child with whom they are working.
Teachers are in a difficult position of having to teach to over thirty students.

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A TEACHER'S INFLUENCE
Oxford Tutoring Slogan:
We Teach the Way You Learn!
The most effective way for anyone to
learn is their learning style, and it is
ideal to have the instructor both be
aware of a student learning style and
to adapt to it.

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LEARNING STYLES

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WHY DO WE LABEL OURSELVES?
The impulse, still, is to keep these distinctions of "Math" and
"English,” of course.
These are the more obvious lines
to draw in the sand, because
they are reinforced by our
classes and grades - we see our
performance in these disciplines
boiled down to a letter, telling
only how well or poorly we did.
We take up our literary and formulaic arms, not pausing to realize that English
and Math are inextricably linked; there are specific domains of Math (graph
theory) that, among other things, model English, and these ideas cannot be
communicated without proper command of the English language.

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CROSSING THE DIVIDE
Let's replace the "Math" and "English" split with "Got-It" or "Not-It"
We all have the potential to be English people, and we all have the
potential to be Math people
We just need someone to convey the material in the way it makes sense to us, for
whichever subject we may be learning.

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CROSSING THE DIVIDE
Except for History,
I have no explanation
for how those History
people can do it.

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