The Importance Of Literacy Sponsoring

Literacy sponsors “are powerful figures who bankroll event or smooth the way for initiates” (Brandt 167). Literacy sponsors are people who help to shape who we are in the future. They provide their skills to help us learn or better understand ideas and abilities. Anyone can be sponsor, as long as they help influence a person’s understanding or knowledge of certain concepts or ideas. “In whatever form, sponsors deliver the ideological freight that mist be borne for access to what they have” (Brandt 168). Everyone has literacy sponsors, we may not realize it at first, but thinking back on my life I have thought of a few literacy sponsors who have helped shape me into who I am today. One of the people I would consider a literacy sponsor in my life is my mother. I would consider her a literacy sponsor in many aspects of my life. I believe that she influenced me the most when it came to school. She helped me appreciate learning and knowledge. She showed me how to get the most out of what I learn in any area of study. My mother started teaching me at an early age. As soon as my older brothers were of school age she taught me what they were learning. While my brothers were in public school, my mother kept me at home and homeschooled me.

If it hadn’t been for her making me learn how to think and learn for myself, I wouldn’t be where I am today. There were many times during my high school days where I needed to be independent in my learning because there were teachers who didn’t teach the lesson properly. While other student were struggling with those teachers I was able to overcome that trial and succeed in those classes. I’ve been told all my life that college is way more independent when it comes to learning than any other time I your life. I believe because I learned at such a young age how to teach myself, I have a greater chance at succeeding than other who have not had the same