Jean Jacques Rousseau emphasized the importance of personal experience for a pupil’s education in his treatise for education while the monster in Mary Shelley’s story relied on books to formulate his education, and although both are important, education should not solely be based off books or experience only, instead, it is the interconnectedness of the two that creates a valuable and priceless education.
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What’s Good.
1- You identify a literary and a theory text.
2- You make a claim.
Concerns
1- Your strongest claim is not about the texts. It’s about life and what is and isn’t a good education. That way of thinking will be great for the group project, but here you need to narrow in on a claim that is about these texts.
2-I think you might need to be a little more rigorous with your reading of Frankenstein if you’e going to make this argument. Your argument implies that the monster only learns from books, but if you’ve glanced over most of the thesis statements from your classmates, you can see that people have repeatedly found evidence to say that the monster is an example of education by things and by experience of sensation and reflection. I think you’re correct that the monster learn’s by books, but I think you need to contextualize that with the other parts of his education.