Education Reflection Paper

In today’s society, whether you pursue an education or not may determine your future in many different ways. We all come from different backgrounds, which will either give us the inspiration to achieve our goals or stop us from even attempting our goals. People tend to not understand what a real education is and what it actually means to be educated. Well James Miller, editor of Acting Out Culture, instills that “The goal of education is to make students into critical thinkers, to foster a familiarity with diverse range of viewpoints, and to instill an appreciation for how varied and complex the world around us truly is” (315). My own perception of an education is that gives us the opportunity to achieve a successful and beneficial way of our goals. It also can show us a different way of living and how we perceive life.

Depending on where you originate from may impart your own education in many ways. A poor neighborhood educated student is less likely to be as educated as a student from a wealthy student environment. Poor neighborhoods are less likely to have more experienced and advanced teachers, which puts the lower income students

Based on where I have grown up around, I learned that not many people have a college education. I noticed the contest struggles that are presented to them and noticed I can’t see myself in that predicament. Daily, I use where I come from and motivate and teach myself that I’m capable of anything, and the world is mine. I realized that opportunities don’t appear without hard working. So I plan to apply myself within education for future opportunities. I believe that’s a huge problem in today’s society. Everyone wants to live in lavish, but apparently not many take advantage of the opportunities presented in front of them. This is why, the world we live in is complicated and all that are intelligent aren’t putting their good brains to extra