Quiz+Speech+mf13

I don't think it's right to make a student read from a textbook and be expected to learn all different difficult terms and vocabulary in 2 days. Especially when no guidance in teaching is present. I believe that it is better to understand lessons in giving a life-long piece of useful knowledge than to scurry and try to memorize things that will soon be forgotten in the course of a month or two. I cannot perform or make a project based on a concept that I do not understand. In my mind, the words in the textbook connect nothing to me, and don't have any relevance to anything I can relate to by just reading it. The way I saw it, there were two ways this task could've been: -receiving a failing grade on a quiz on information I truly don't know, with the aid of trying to memorize the terms using flashcards. OR -being taught a lesson of various useful information, (and different ways to assure comprehension), then in the future being gifted with the knowledge in one way or another. I don't expect this speech to get me out of failing the quiz, it's just what I think.