I Just Wanna Be Average Analysis

Education, it's the only thing anyone can’t take away from anyone, once it has been achieved, it encourage people to study the past and present for the future. It comes from a type of writing or an actual teacher, teaching the students something new or encouraging them to be better or create higher goals than the students thought of themselves. Learning is away people educate themselves, by first getting inspired by someone else and then continuing the chain of inspiring more people to educate themselves about the world and its surroundings. The “learners” are the ones that will get the most benefit of the learning power because of it, they wouldn’t have trusted themselves to find out more about everything else in life, and getting out the

social norms of what society tells them to how to live their life since it’s what their ancestors’ lifestyle is in their lifetime. Essays, educational videos, and tv shows illustrating how the “learners” having the learning power and because of it they became successful in life.
Essays like I Just Wanna be Average by Mike Rose and Learning to read by Malcolm X prove that even though some people came from bad situations they use those bad situations to motivates themselves to better by changing their life because someone or something had impacted them to educate themselves which lead them to be successful.

In the essay I Just Wanna be Average, Mike Rose talks about how he didn’t really care about school until his later year of school when he was put in smart classes, but it was in Mr. McFarland’s English class that he started reading books after so many years and actually got good grades in his last year of high school. Mr. McFarland inspired Mr. Rose to be a lifelong learner which he actually shaped himself up and when it was time for college registrations he help him get into a good college which now Mr. Rose is using that knowledge to inspire other people and teach them what Mr. McFarland had thought him. In Learning to Read by Malcolm

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Educational videos such as TED Talks which has various inspirational presentations about technology, education and design presented by experts in those topics.In Angela Lee Duckworth’s TED Talk speech of Git, she stated that “Grit is having perseverance and long term goal”which in other words learners have the learning power because they have the drive and motivations to continue learning and educating themselves.

People have grits because they had something or someone inspires them truly which is the reason why the continue to work on or educate themselves. Angela quoted in her speech that“‘Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows, in response to challenge, they’re much more likely to persevere when they fail because they don’t believe that failure is a permanent condition" which can connect to Mr. Rose’s article because when Mr. Rose was put in Mr. McFarland’s class in his last year of high school which he got challenge by the subject which he actually tried hard and got good grades that year. People also who question everything like a child which is when you find out something new and you're not happy with what people gives you so you ended up researching about it and educating themselves. Scientists are also like this they spent on months even years on experimenting or doing research one particular topic and after testing the data the result is rejected and so they have to go back to square one even if they had

already spent working on this project for couple of years and just proving its a failed, but most of them especially when it was just its first trial they would not give up and continue on to fix the mistake but just going back to step 1 which is making hypothesis. Another Ted Talk presenter is Sugata Mitra‘s which in his Ted Talk video Kids Can Teach Themselves, he shared the story on how he got into the conclusions that “children will learn to do what they want to do” about how he went to New Delhi, India and brought couple of computers and put them in the wall that is seen by everyone and children there were amaze but when he ask questions about the word that says in the screen they didn't answer which to him was a downer and so he left. But little did Mr. Mitra know those children had been playing around with the computer he brought, learning how to use it and take advantage on what it can produce. After leaving for months Mr. Mitra went back to New Delhi, and he said that when he asked the question that he had asked months ago, no one answered but one and she answered him with elaboration and use science words, which ofcourse he didnt expected will be the result of it. These quotes and story reminds me of my senior quote which is by Jim Rohn, “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” because people today make those choices with their lives every single day, though most people would end up choosing what they are forced or what society tells them just because money is more important than anything in today’s society. This quote also connect to the previous quotes because learners who has grit which is the motivation to achieve what they really like or curious about on learning will achieve them compare to others. This passionity can also be seen in tv reality tv shows like Big Brother.
TV shows like Pinoy Big Brother which is the filipino version of the American reality TV show Big Brother, but PBB is more educational and family friendly show which means it has morals that can be learn by everyone that is watching the show. Big Brother in PBB is the owner of the house and a voice of a man that no one had ever met even before the show started a decade ago. Every year/ season Big Brother would have houseguests (a.k.a the contestants) and for months they would stay at the house for a whole three to five months without any connections with the outside world, but on the same time almost every move they make it is seen by millions of viewers. While staying in the house, drama happen; fights with each other, family problems and basically life problems. Every time the houseguests (which is the learners) would need advise on solving their problems or Big Brother (the giver) see that his houseguests are making bad choices in his house, he will advise them all these lessons that they not only will use inside Big Brother’s house but also when they leave and face the real world, which viewers had seen all these years since those houseguests become celebrities and criticized by everyone but because of the advice they got from Big Brother they will now know how to deal with it and become successful in life. The houseguests entered the house with their own talents, college degrees and looks, but because of Big Brother, they will leave the house with life wisdom that they will always use in everyday life. Through weekly tasks in the show for the houseguests Big Brother taught them to have long goals and show them they can achieve it if they really want it by using the card of getting passionate/ motivated for a loved ones. PBB if compare with the other country’s Big Brother shows, their Big Brother would just let the houseguests make more complications and learn for their own since those dramas will just boost their tv ratings and give them more money. Though filipino viewers of PBB love watching the show because they not only can relate to the houseguests’ feelings or have the same past experience, the viewers also can lesson learned from the the mistake and also use those advice of Big Brother in their own daily life.
Learning is not only learn inside the classroom such as reading about them in the articles or even watching youtube videos of Ted Talk that English classes require students, but also it can be learn outside even in tv shows demonstrates how learners learn from givers and use those knowledge to succeed in life. Learners will benefit more than the giver with the learning power by using those ideas they had learn to either elaborate more on their understanding of the world and use them to create more solution for the problem of the world; or they can become givers, which is pass on those knowlege/ wisdom to another learner who can use them in also doing good for themselves and others. Learning something new or expanding our knowledge is how we educate ourselves to be more active citizens of the world.