I agree with the statement because if a person doesn't try something beyond what they have already mastered then they won't further their career /education, develop critical characteristics, and new relationships. Children grow up on their journey through school, so if they stop their education at a level they have already mastered then they won't intellectually grow. Some people may say that they are comfortable at the level they are at, or they excel at it. That may be true, however, their is no more room for growth once they stop at the level they've mastered. Therefore if people don't push themselves past the subjects they've already mastered, then they won't further their education or career. For example, children in kindergarten …show more content…
Leveling up from what we have already mastered helps us grow and form critical characteristics, so it is necessary for everyone to do it. Some people may argue that the development of characteristics doesn't come from going beyond what is already mastered, but maybe from sports or school. However, both sports and school do ,indeed, involve moving past what people have mastered. Some of the critical characteristics gained by pushing past mastery include patience, responsibility, and trust. For example, learning a new skill in gymnastics can be life threatening and terrifying, so pushing past mastery and learning a new skill helps develop trust (trusting the coach), patience, and courageousness. New relationships can be formed by pushing through mastery. In this case mastery would be an exclusive group of friends and growth would be making new friends outside of the exclusive group. Some people may say that making friends isn't related to "mastering", however it is because, mastering the friendships is getting as close as possible to someone and knowing everything about them. At some point having only a few friends that know everything about each other can be tiring, so it's time to grow, or make a new friend in order to grow their
“You may soon find yourself with nothing to talk to your folks or friends about”. (p.532) In other words, education changes those with lower class backgrounds into different people, and when you begin to succeed, those relationships that were once fulfilling with people from your childhood and the old neighborhood are not the same, there is not a connection as you no longer have things in common to maintain the relationship and you may find it difficult to keep in
A user on www.Debate.Org says that “[Learning is] needed in order to function and survive in the world.” Another user on the same debate concurs, saying that “A person who stops learning stops growing and stops becoming a better and more productive person.“ This is important because it reveals the significance in learning as a whole. There are no arguments against why learning is important to date, and this reveals a lot in itself because it shows how this is a topic that cannot be argued. Without learning from their mistakes, a person continues to repeat their mistakes, making life painful. This reveals how important learning is to the meaning of life
The way he emphasizes the difference between acquisition and learning, brings a whole new level to education. Using this knowledge, we can develop an education system that will help our youth stay on track and understand what they’re learning and why they’re learning it. This could be particularly helpful with elementary education, when the children are still developing what it means to learn. By redefining the education system, we’ll be able to help our children reach their real potential. If we understand how to teach, it will be a million times easier to connect with the children. We can help our next generation become properly educated about the world that they’re
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
In the novel, this is extremely evident in the relationship between Okonkwo and his father, Unoka as mentioned before, never achieved success in his life which caused a rift between him and his child. Okonkwo destroyed the relationship between him and his father so that he could move up on the social ladder, and in the end was annoyed when Unoka tried to connect in his dying days. Another example is that of Ikemefuna, though Okonkwo had no ability to change what happened he did not need to participate. However, he wanted to be seen as strong, and unmoving so he killed a boy that he saw as a son. In the modern world this is another idea that fits perfectly into the High School social structure. When people get to high school or even middle school they have friends, but when they want to fit in somewhere else they decide their friends aren’t cool, and they leave them in the dust in favor of new superficial kinship with people they most likely don’t even like. When one's life is based entirely on where they fit into the social structure, they never form true relationships that bring them real happiness or
However, students come into college having little core knowledge and spend their first two years learning criteria that should have been taught to them in K-12. I completely agree with this belief because I’m a student and I have classes with other students who haven’t successfully mastered the core knowledge of a subject and end up having poor grades. This causes me to believe that the last two claims were the most powerful because it is a sad realization that the more people that go to college to get a B.A., the more people who will not finish college. In conclusion, Charles Murray uses his paper “Are Too Many People Going to College?”
“You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it.” ― Santosh Kalwar. (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/education?page=11) Throughout the 18 years I’ve lived on Earth, I have learned one thing. Life is nothing but trial and error. You can only learn by learning. You can only experience by experiencing. All my life I took something so vital for granted; pushing it away because I was afraid. I allowed myself to be held back by my trials. I let myself become my problems. I never took an open opportunity like this to better myself, until now. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ― Sydney J. Harris. (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/education?page=11) My education is my future; a second chance I thought I’d never get. And I’m never turning back. That is what my education means to me.
The reason why he says that is because most often having a teacher not take a lot of interest in what they are teaching or not having the inspiration in wanting to get students excited for learning. What he means by this is that the education system is not letting students discover what they enjoy doing and instead focusing on the important subjects such as math, English and science to name a few.
As soon as I read this quote I could not help but apply it to my teaching career. I do not believe that our students are empty vessels waiting to be filled with information and knowledge -rather students are partially-filled vessels with a wealth of experience, knowledge and preconceptions. My role as an educator, rather than as a teacher, is to engage the students to tap into this knowledge and challenge them, in order to further build on what they already know. I believe that the educational system should be tailored for each and every student according to their needs in order to bring out their full potential.
It left me wondering how repetition could possibly lead to achieving perfection. As a result, whenever I came across stumbles in my academic career and got anything less than a 100, my mind was a constant barrage of “study, study, study” and “more, more, more”. I never once doubted the validity of this saying or think to myself, “Maybe I can’t be the best at everything.” The saying, like the media’s advocation, gave credit to the existence of perfection, though it does not
However, the amounts of knowledge that I was getting made me forget about the challenges and made me hungry for more. The more I learn, the more I find out that there is no limit to education and as long as I live I could keep on learning. Therefore, as long as I’m capable of learning I will continue to learn and my education journey will be an endless one. Most people have a different perspective on what an educated person is and according to Hudson Valley Sudbury School “education sometimes happens at school and sometimes doesn’t, and knowledge can be a sign of an education, but neither are education itself. Simply put, education as the willingness and ability to learn for the sake of learning. The truly educated person learns constantly without supervision or external reward”(Burdik, 2014). I completely agree with this code. I believe education is the willingness to learn not for the sake of rewards, but for the ability to expand our thoughts and ideas and also to solve problems and to know the unknown.
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as every child should be instilled with the wish to learn."
you want to do it. Also, evidence suggests that social class prevents the education system from efficiently grading individuals in terms of ability to be able to do To conclude this essay, the functionalists have identified education. as a crucial part of the socialisation process as it transmits and re-inforces society’s norms and values, prepares children for adulthood. roles and selects young people in terms of their abilities for crucial roles.
In a gym, for example, a man could have been training for 7 months to reach a 150 pound bench, while another man, who has come in to the gym for his very first time, comes and also benches 150 pounds. The man who was not able to bench 150 bounds on this first go had less skill than the man who came in for his first time and got it on his first try. It does not mean if a person does not possess a certain skill from the start, that they will never achieve it. It just means that people will have to do a little more work to get to that level of skill. Another example, is with reading. Some will be able to read an entire book in just one day, while others will need to repetitively keep read over and over again to get anywhere near the ability to read an entire book in one day. Skills are not only a thing people are born with, but something people could also
These two functions of education shaped my identity. Through socialization, I learned many social norms (learning attitudes, moral values, and behaviors) through interactions with my teachers and peers. I learned to respect and appreciate my teachers, my friends, and myself. Not only that, the most important thing I learned that made me a successful person is obeying the deadline. Furthermore, I also learned “soft skills” (Manza 417). In the case of Steve Job, his body odor was the reason stopping him to be successful if he was not able to create his own company; I learned that keeping my appearance neat and clean was also important to be socially acceptable. Socialization is very important in my life because it helps me realize that I need to surround myself with people that support my decision, and continuous broaden my circle of acquaintances. Overall, my past high school had done well in preparing my friends and me for our future. All faculties not only guided us toward the career we want in our future, they also helped us having our first important credential – the high school diploma, and they also shaped us to be who we are today. I learned the intellectual skills I needed to be able to graduate high school and able to go to college in order to become a pharmacist. I learned that having credentials is important for my future