This semester was unlike any other, classes online where you zoomed in to learn. Some things were excused because it was a possible truth. Students having the ability to cheat on their tests, turn on/off their cameras, unmute/mute to participate, everything was placed in the palm of our hands. We have to take the initiative to want to learn and participate. Some of those students who didn't attend their class and have done their work were held accountable for their own grades and the opportunity to pass the first-semester classes could slip through their hands if they didn't grasp it fast enough. However, this course was made easy for us because our instructor had respect and faith in us, the students, that we would do things that made us feel comfortable enough to all respect the teacher in return. This course gave students a chance to freely express what we thought then and there. From the minute of mindfulness at the beginning of class to the talks about how we f
Jean Valjean in this chapter made me believe that he did undergo a change. I've never once read that someone was using learning to convert it to master the ways of evil. I can see how instinct was playing a big part in how the process Jean Valjean went through to come out different than when he first got into prison.