Rich defines claiming an education as you going out and learning and taking the information and processing it, not just taking it and sitting there with it. He wants you to do something want it. “The first thing I want to say to you who are students, is that you cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education; you will do much better to think as yourself being her to claim one” (Rich, 608). I define claiming an education as a student doing the best he can do to understand the material in the class and just asking the teacher to review or go over the work with you. Just for you to understand the material inside and out, so you can explain it to somebody. You should be able to explain the material to anybody and they understand it. That is when you know you fully understand the material. …show more content…
You should be able to fully explain the material and explain it to the teacher. Receiving in education is what most people do in school all over the country. Receiving in education would be like the teacher is talking to you but you are sleep, so technically you are receiving an education but you aren't even paying attention in class. The information is being taught to you or it is being received to you but you are just not processing the information. You are just sitting there not doing anything letting life pass you by not even trying to ask for help. You have no care for your education just trying to get out of the class. This would hurt you and you would most likely fail the