Kumashiro addresses commonsense in both education and daily life. He explains it as the things that both he and the residents of the village he stays in in Nepal have taken for granted, such as eating three meals a day, which is the norm in most of North America but is seen as strange in Nepal. He even says that ways of cooking and the ingredients used were different in Nepal from what he was used to and it made him seem like a bad cook to the Nepali people in the village. When Kumashiro entered the school, it took him a while to figure out what all of his students were used to in the classroom and he even said that it was a strange and uncomfortable situation to adapt to. For Kumashiro, commonsense in Nepal was something that the Nepali people took for granted as something that everybody should know, which is something that can be applied all around the world in different settings. 

It is important to pay attention to commonsense because if it gets ignored the commonsense ways of doing things will never develop and change into more beneficial and relevant practices. Commonsense needs to be able to adapt to society as people grow and change throughout time so that everyone can benefit from the education they are receiving. Something that I bring with me into this course is the concept of teacher-centered classrooms. Even in elementary school, I can remember experiencing classrooms that were primarily set up so the students sat at desks and looked at the teacher talking at the front of the room. It has only been recently in university that I have begun to experience some changes in this classroom setup and that has helped me to realize that there is no need for the teacher and the students to be so clearly separated in the classroom. As well, I had been somewhat aware of the concept of the hidden curriculum already but I had not realized how different it was from what I have understood as commonsense. Curriculum to me had been strictly the subject matter.