In the essay education by Randolph W Emerson he talks about why the education system is damaged in his opinion on it in solution. The genre of this essay is an opinionated essay throughout the essay Emerson tends to have a condemning tone against the educator but towards the end it changes to a comforting and helpful tone. Emerson states “The natural method forever confutes our experiments, and we must still come back to it. The whole theory of the school is on the nurse's or mother's knee. The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart. There is mutual delight. The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skillful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth” (Emerson 104). The reason behind the text is to critique the teaching/educational system established and how to effectively teach the pupils as well as change the way students are taught and treated by the teachers. The author wants the reader to do/think as a result of reading/viewing this piece, is view education differently because he wants them to know that education, based on his logic and perspective, is flawed, and he has solutions to fix that flaws.the audience and response is The group of readers that the piece is directed to is the teachers and students.
