Public lecture

Summary of public lecture Ivy
We went to the lecture “Dose public education benefit public” on April 29. It held in a coffee shop.
The speaker named Noel Burke. He is the Dean of school of extended learning. He used and worked with public education system for 55 years. Also, he used to study in England. He found that the public education system is very different from Montreal. He has done a lot of researches on this topic, so he gave us a wonderful lecture.
Firstly, I would like to talk about the thesis of the speaker. Noel Burk presented his idea about how people participate in public education so that they can improve it. There were two accepts. One was the role of policy; another was the role of school.
Secondly, I would like to give some critiques. Noel Burk is a really good speaker. He spoke in expressive way and normal pacing. He had a good organization so that we can understand well. Also, he talked about his personal experiences, so we didn’t feel bored. Moreover, audiences had different backgrounds. Some of them are educators, some of them are retired principles, and some of them are parents. Everyone listened carefully and involved in the topic. An addition, the question period lasted one hour. It sounds like very long, but it was very interesting and useful. We got much more information in the question period. Anyway, this lecture was very nice. It was very deferent from others. It held in the coffee shop and in conversational style. There are more interaction between speaker and audience. Everyone asked questions, discussed questions and gave comments. We didn’t feel be isolated from other people.
Finally, I would like to give the summary of the lecture. The lecture started with the background of the public education. Noel Burk pointed out the public education system always change because they need adopt our society. In the past, everyone studied at home. Nowadays, everyone is studying at school. It has been created a good environment that has more social contact with each other. Also, there is more and more people began to pay attention on public education system. We have realized that learning from experiences is more important than learning from books. We should have our own ideas instead of just accepting what teacher gave us. Skills what we learned from school should be used in our rest of life. Moreover, from what I have understood, he pointed out two important things which are needed to improve our public education system. The first one was public education should let everyone see that what they are doing, because parents want to know everything about their children in the school. The second one is the partnership of public education system. Parents, teachers and leaders have to work together. Otherwise public education system won’t work well. The relationship between them shouldn’t be conflict.
In conclusion, although we can’t understand everything about the content, we got a new experience from this lecture.