Deep Brain Learning Healing The Heart Analysis

Young minds are some of the most important in our society today. For this reason, children should have positive representations of themselves in their education system. In America, most children of color do not have these adult figures in their schools. According to the article “US teacher are no where as diverse as their students” Jesse J. Holland says that almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet only 1 in 5 of their teachers are nonwhite. African Americans have a much more difficult time getting employment in the U.S school system today.

In the article “Deep Brain Learning: Healing the heart” by Larry Brendtro it states that for the growing brain of a young child, the social world supplies the most important experiences influencing the

Racism not only impairs the well being of a person with color but also white who experience stress in interracial contacts may be compromising their own health as well. Our system preforms fast, intuitive thinking and comes to automatic judgments all without any conscious control. This automatic system is responsible for racial biases. Negative thoughts crop up automatically before we are consciously aware of them, so tamping them down requires extra mental effort William Garcia, an African American man had been employed at the Austin Independent school district in 2014. For the first few months of him getting hired he was assigned to mentor another former teacher that had been teaching there for a few years. This lady never went out of her way to help William out in any means. “ One of those white liberals who thought she knew something about racism, educational inequality, and low-income communities” says William about his former mentor. William felt attacked being one of the only African American teachers at this school, and every time he had made a mistake the principle would call him out in front of the class and humiliate him. He never understood why