The following quotes are taken from Anthology chapters 9 and 11

Quote 1- "A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character.  This relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient listening objects (the students)." (Anthology, p. 91)
This quote kind of made me angry that the author could compare the classroom to a narrative.  I understand the teacher is narrating to the students in the classroom, but isn't the teachers job to get the students t be narrators as well?  I feel as though you need the students to be able to feel comfortable in front of the class and voice their own opinions.  If you don't, these students will never be able to progress in the classroom environment and feel comfortable enough to speak in front of their peers.  The teacher should always be narrating positive advice to his/her students to encourage them to develop as a student and become their own narrator.

Quote 2- "Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated account.  Worse yet, it turns them into containers, into receptacles to be filled by the teachers."(Anthology, p. 92)
This goes along with the first quote I chose.  It makes me angry to see that they can consider these children "containers" and "receptacles."  Students should not be mechanical learners and have to memorize the "narrator" says.  This just leads to a boring classroom where students aren't retaining any of the information being taught.  We, as teachers, need to provide an interactive classroom for our students where narration occurs among every student in the classroom.  This will allow for an engaging classroom where students are asked to participate and interact with one another.

Quote 3- "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.  Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat."(Anthology, p. 92)
This relates to quote number two because it deals with the whole banking concept of education, where the teacher is the  depositor of information on the students.  Instead of having the students communicate the information being taught, he/she is just depositing the information being "taught" into the students brains, where they are asked to memorize, retain, and repeat the information.  How are the students expected to remember the information later in their educational careers?  This is just setting the students up to fail because they aren't given the opportunity to use the information being taught.  These students need to do activities with the objective/information and interact with one another in order to understand it.  Without this opportunity these students are piggy banks filled with money of no worth.

Quote 4- "In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation." (Anthology, p. 100)
I loved this quote because it stands true to me and should to problem-posing education for others.  We should perceive problem solving as a way in which we find ourselves.  We should allow for our students to find themselves in the world they are living.  This should happen not only through the use of real world problems, but letting them see the world in various ways to allow for different opinions and viewpoints.  Teachers should be willing to allow their students to find themselves in a free and non-judgmental way.

Quote 5- "If you are planning to become a teacher, welcome, and prepare to be overwhelmed." (Anthology, p. 112)
This quote made me laugh and get scared at the same time because of all the things they said teachers were overwhelmed by later in the paragraph.  Some of these examples include: portfolios, standard-based lessons, differentiated instruction, IEPs, ESTs, continuous assessment, making sure kids pass those standardized tests, fundraisers, getting the computers to work, inclusion, trying to keep discipline in a classroom where some can't even sit still for a minute.  These are only some of the factors they listed that make me overwhelmed for when I become a teacher.  So much goes into becoming a teacher and much more goes into being a good teacher.  I look forward to the challenge and all I have to say is, bring it on!

Quote 6- "Great teachers know that to actually be successful, a student must first do something of value. Simply telling kids they are good won't wash.  Student success is fostered by the work students do, by what they produce.  This can include participating, performing, creating, practicing, designing, producing, carrying out an experiment, finishing an assignment, or any of hundreds of other activities." (Anthology, p. 116)
I loved this quote because it talked about what great teachers are asked to do and how students work can lead to success.  I loved how they gave some examples of how students success is fostered in the class.  Students should be able to produce a great deal of things if they are taught by a great teacher.  In order to be a great teacher, we must know our students and understand them in order to know what we can expect from each individual.  If we expect a lot out of our students and lead them to the ultimate goal, then we can expect great things out of our students.  If students are not given the opportunity or led in the right direction they might be set up to fail at the objective trying to be taught.