Gryphon

Miss Ferenczi is such a bold character. She's so confident in everything she says and it seems like she's comfortable in her own skin. She is a quirky and quite interesting person with weird beliefs, but it is kind of risky putting weird beliefs into a young child's mind. This is the time where they develop and they are very vulnerable to silly lies such as Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Some things she says aren't necessarily appropriate for the age she's teaching but others are quite interesting and fun to think about.

1. Six times eleven equals sixty-eight, if someone said that was true to me, as a child I would believe it. I have a very stubborn personality, so it would be hard later to grow up and realize that the answer was actually sixty-six. I would keep asking why and why and eventually it would lead to nowhere. That part was just confusing and irrelevant. Math has always been taught to be logical and find out accurate answers. It's not something you can have fun with. I wish it was fun; I think we all do, but messing around with a child's knowledge is simply cruel. Don't get me wrong I think I'd find it fascinating to have Miss Ferenczi as a teacher. I would love to hear all her adventurous stories, but how she twists around proven facts, things you just can't change, into lies would be confusing to a child.

2. I think the general idea that the author was trying to do was making Miss Ferenczi someone who would actually prepare the kids for the future and reality. I think sometimes adults never want to expose their kids to the real world, but we all have to face it sooner or later and you can't keep them hidden. But how she said death doesn't exist kind of contradicts the characters goal of exposing the kids to the real world. I'm not a very religious person, but everyone has different beliefs of what comes after death whether its heaven, hell, or reincarnation. I know one thing that is true, that we all die. That's all I ever knew to be true. The parts before and after death don't makes sense, but death is not something complicated. It's just a time where you let someone else live. It takes a long time to find out why I'm here and you always wonder where you go afterwards. It's also something my parents never tried to cover up and that's saying something.

3. I think it's nice that Miss Ferenczi exposed kids to a different religion other than Christianity. I know all my life whenever friends find out that I'm just not much of a religious person, they take me to church. Nobody was ever different and I think it's nice that she's giving kids more options to choose from and not just stick to something common. I was a Christian at one point but for the wrong reason. I just thought it was the right way to live just because it's the religion that I hear about the most. As I thought about it more and more I respected people's beliefs and how much they had faith in their high power. I just had a couple of disagreements and some parts just didn't make sense to me. Another part of me was saying, "No, why would so many people believe in this religion though?" I just thought I should just be open to many people's beliefs and listen before I decide to put my faith in it. I don't want to get my hopes up.