The Journey of Education

The Journey of Education

My educational journey has been marked by many incredible teachers and (equally incredible) experiences. I am very fortunate to have been a student to some of the greatest, however sadly unknown teachers. My educational journey has been accompanied by teachers from all ends of the educational spectrum. I have had serious, inspirational and unorthodox teachers and teaching styles. It is my intention to illustrate my educational journey to the reader.

My early experiences as a student had little effect on shaping my life. I was too young and too apathetical to have any sincere interest in my education at that point. I remember more about President Reagan bombing Libya and the television miniseries “V” then I do about my first years of school.

Everyone has that one teacher early on that is so inspirational, so unorthodox and incredible that you want to tell the world how great they are – and this is my chance! My first truly inspirational teacher was my 5th grade teacher, Mr. Eckle. Mr. Eckle taught me that learning and the development of the mind is not reserved to just reading, writing and arithmetic.

Mr. Eckle taught us the critical thinking benefits of chess, the attention to detail of stamp collecting, the political, historical aspects and consequences of the Revolutionary War, the scientific aspects of rockets and most notably, the courage to petition against higher powers for redress.

Mr. Eckle taught us that throughout life we will be confronted with many problems and that to solve those problems we must come up with solutions by way of critical thinking and strategy. His use of chess, for example, achieved our grasp of these lessons of strategy and critically thinking.

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...rricular events and more importantly my education. As a result of the war, college has become so much more important to the ends that I wish to meet: graduate law school after the lessons I learned in Iraq.

I feel that law school will be a great challenge to me because of the competitiveness and the complexity of the material inherent in its own curriculum. I believe that law school will further challenge my mind as well as my character. At this point in time I would like to create rules of engagement policy as a Judge Advocate General (a military lawyer) after law school or pursue a career in business law.

In conclusion, the educational journey doesn’t end. It may end in the traditional classroom sense but we will always be learning by experience and trial and error. It is my hope that I will always be in a state of educational progression throughout my life.