"And the four right chords can make me cry"

I strongly believe that good music is felt and listened through emotion. As lead singer, Stephan Jenkins, of Third Eye blind sang in their most memorable song "Semi-Charmed Life", " the four right chords can make me cry", just showing the direct relationship music can have with the soul. There are so many different ways to listen to music nowadays, each giving or taking unique things from music. On a record player music is more warm and inviting. On an ipod it's harder to hear everything that is going on, and the listener might feel a little more distant with the message. At a concert the music is brought to life by the band. It's the opportunity for the artist to fully give their music personality. There is a connection between fan and artist; the atmosphere is full of emotion; each instrument is literally felt in one's chest. Each time I listen to a song on my ipod I try to find something new that I never noticed before. But there are certain effects that listening to music through an ipod has that cannot be heard from a record player, one important one is panning. With panning different levels of music are directly flowing through each hear, the brain interprets the different pieces as one. With this affect there is more interaction with the music but one still does not get the close connection that going to a concert or listening on a record player gives.

panopticon

In elementary school there was more fears of being watched because we sat with the same classmates everyday and had only one, maybe two teachers. This isn't the case for college, where nobody knows our business unless we chose to share it with them. Each level of school has had some relation to certain aspects of Jeremy Benthan's idea of panopticons in education. Once in elementary school kids learn based on reward and punishment. It's hard to keep a six year old's attention, so teachers put fun stickers on good test grades and send class clowns to time out. Kids show off their stickers if they get one and kind of hide away when they don't. The kids who do well like the positive attention they get by doing what teacher's and parent's consider "good" so they will enforce the standards placed by the teachers because it works in their favor. "The ruling person is a spy; in the latter he is a monitor." Kids watch what other kids are doing either because of curiosity or because teachers persuaded kids to be on their side and go against other kids if they are doing something wrong. This appeal of teacher, classmate, and parental approval is what creates the unhealthy competition in todays schools. Kids see school as more of a burden and learn what they are told because they feel they have to instead of for the sake of learning.