What we see at school

Mirror Neurons are very helpful since it affects our emotion, attitudes and action without us knowing that it is there. It is greatly used by the media to set trends and social movements by showing things on T.V that we sublimely follow because we saw on T.V done by famous people. If mirror neurons are used to brainwash our society then how come schools never use to persuade the students in this country to be more active in school. In the Passion Project the narrator talks how mirror neurons can be used by teachers to greatly influence their students because they are very close related throughout the whole school year. Teachers are there to not only teach the students but to sway students to be more into education. Students unconsciously use their mirror neurons and copies what the teachers is doing. In the article “What do mirror neurons mirror?” by Pim Haselager it states “the activity of mirror neurons is often conceptualized as a form of representation”(2). If a teacher is lacking in passion when teaching, then a student might copy them and mirror the same feelings that the teachers is showing and this will lead to students falling behind in the class or school. But if a teacher show excitement towards the things that they are teaching then the students will act and feel exited too. It also states that “neurons are said to represent action means, action ends or goals, and intentions”(3). Students in any level of school have different intention but if a teacher’s goal is just to get paid and not to teach then the mirror neurons in the student’s brain might affect our own goals and change it so we are not leaning towards learning anymore. Since goals and intention is mirrored by mirror neurons then teachers should re-evaluate their intentions toward teaching so they can be a major influence to their students and not be a hindrance and bad example to them. Mirror neurons is a major asset to teaching so teachers should be more aware of how they act in front of their students because in the end  they might mirror the bad things and not the things that will help them from succeeding in school. 

Pim Haselager, et al. "What Do Mirror Neurons Mirror?." Philosophical Psychology 24.5 (2011): 607-623. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 Sept. 2013.