Skyler Orman
2/19/13

People learn for a variety of different reasons, whether it be to itch their curiosity or to better themselves. Just as there are different reasons to learn there as many techniques in which individuals use to understand what they are learning. In the Salman Khan, founder a nonprofit schooling website which provides professionally done educational videos to the public called The Khan Academy, believes that subjects in school should be taught by connecting them to the previously taught subjects in order to allow students consolidate the new information more efficiently as well as better retain previously learned information. Khan suggests that by questioning and exploring topics more in depth learners have the chance to make deeper connections with the information than if it goes completely unrelated to their prior knowledge.

Mike Rose tells about his experiences of growing up into his education. By using his curiosity for books as an escape from the reality of his own life Rose transitioned himself into a more critical think and reader. He states “the more an assignment was related to real reading; the better I did; the more analytic, self-contained, and divorced from context, the lousier I did” (Rose 106). The more his assignments appealed to what his personal interests were Rose was able to make the connection from the “real reading” in depth that he read in his personal life and his assignments in school. By making the internal connection of what the books where saying to his personal interests and fascinations he was able to retain and value the new information in a whole different septum allowing him to perform more efficiently on his school assignments . Malcolm X used the information he learned in his own time to benefit and fuel his personal interests, as well. However, Malcolm X used his learning in a much different way than