"Down on the Island" by Jim Cooper

"Down on the Island" is a shot narrative true story written down by an American Professor who teach in one of the Best Universities of Puerto Rico, The UPR of Mayagüez.  In this book, we can appreciate his perspective over the problem o bad speak and bad writing in English that we can see in puerto Rico. Also Cooper speak about the cheating problem that the majority of students in Puerto Rico have. 

Jim Cooper by himself accept and confess how good and how interesting was to teach English in Puerto Rico but also it enfatice that is was very frustrating  and overwhelming. He talk abut causes of why in Puerto Rico is so difficult to teach English, he also talk about how in the public schools of Puerto Rico, form an early age, the teacher and directors ignore the English and give very little importance causing a great void in the English teaching and a big pedagogic problem that at the end, will end up in a lots of students seeking a way of "helping each others" by cheating. He also critics the low monetary award for the teaching profession in Puerto Rico. Cooper talk about two whys of learning: One was te Competitive method, which emphasises in be better than the others and push your self over you to achieve your goals. Which is good because it will end up in a better students with his own goals and desires, but it is also bad because you as a professor should teach your students to learn to love what they are doing and not jus do it for a grade, And the other method is the cooperative, which is very bad because here the students tend to cheat in order to have a greater grade. Ultimately, in my why of think Puerto Ricans students need a better education system that teach them how important is to self accomplish by their owns and how important is to learn English as well as to give them the adequate education that instruct them in this materia.