Growing up as a child, I never really understood the real importance of education, whether it was because of my ignorance as a child or because I needed to realize on my own just how important education is for me. All I knew that it was important, like brushing your teeth every day and showering. I knew it was a place that I had to go every day to "get smart" and as I got older I slowly started to learn education was important if I wanted to have a career. Depending on the person he or she will find their own interpretation of what education is and there is no specific age an individual figures out their own special meaning. When the topic of education is brought up to me, I now have realized not only the obvious statement of how important …show more content…
As a child, I was never at the top of the class, but I was not at the bottom. I was an average student, my issue is that I was very lazy and did not practice the skills I was being taught consistently. I had the ability to pick things up very fast, but I never used that skill to my advantage. I would never reach the next step of whatever was taught because I did not practice at home; I did the bare minimum, which was simply doing the homework, thus I was never the top student and cheated myself from gaining more knowledge. The problem with me was that school was not so appealing to me, I enjoyed some of the fun, learning activities that my teachers would do once in a while, but the problem was they did not have the sufficient time to always conduct fun activities that some students need in order for them to stay engaged and it did not help that I 'm a boy and love to play sports and was only looking forward to recess and PE because I was able to play. Even with that, I was able to come away with slightly above average grades throughout elementary. When I attended middle school, I started to take school slightly more seriously, my motivation, unfortunately, because I had figured out what education meant to me, but simply because my parents said I needed to have good grades in order to play basketball for the school. The GPA requirement for the school was 2.0, which I explained to my
I was never one of those people that would hate school, but neither did I love school. I knew that school would get me to where I want to be and that’s what kept me going. One thing that really impacted my life was seeing my class rank. As I went through the years of high school I would try so hard to have good grades. I would stay up late at night to finish stuff, and I would try so hard to get good grades. Since I was in freshman year, every
Education is very important in the sense that in today’s society, there is not much success without education. Education allows us to grow and learn intellectually. It gives us the ability to enhance our perception of the world as we see it, and construct our
School was a challenge for me when I was younger. Not having the right mindset for school at that time was a major problem as it could affect the way I felt about school for the rest of my life. To me, school was all about who looked the best and who was more popular. I was new to middle school and it was totally different from elementary. It felt as if focusing on school wasn’t as important at that time, needless to say I was on the bandwagon train too. Hanging around and trying to keep up with the cool kids took a toll on my grades tremendously. My schoolwork had escaped my mind in a way. I didn’t see it as a priority anymore.
As a middle school student, school was necessary not my forte. I didn't consider myself as a bad student but then again i was not the best, I considered my self as a average student, only doing what is asked, nothing more, nothing less. Those were my middle school years. Once i hit high school I decided to change and improve on academics. In less than two years i went from finishing my 8th grade year from having a GPA that was below a 2.0 to having a 3.0 and that following year i finished my junior year with a 3.5
Prior to high school, I had done well in school, but did not drive myself to . Towards the end of my eighth grade year, I had attended my brother’s award banquet and noticed that there were students winning almost every award and were recognized for being at the top of their class. At that moment I decided that I wanted to be like the students who did well, but I knew that there was a large amount of effort required. Once I entered high school, I greatly increased the effort that I put into my classes. I spent more time studying, consulting teachers, and completing assignments, all while balancing sports and other extracurricular activities. My grades had drastically improved and I knew that I had succeeded, but I wanted to achieve more. Through my sophomore and junior years, I pushed myself in harder classes, became an officer in many of my activities, and increased my involvement with new activities. Presently, I am well known by my community and school for my academic achievement and service through leadership. This chain of events has increased my work ethic, responsibility, and drive for greatness. Moreover, this experience has allowed me to develop into the devoted, confident, and disciplined person I am
I’ve always known I was relatively good at school. It was either that, or the constant yelling of my Mom, “ You are so smart,” every time I did anything that took a tiny bit of skill. School wasn’t too fun, but I knew it was important. It wasn’t too hard either, all you had to was appear and do your best, which made it super easy. This meant that I didn’t have to try too hard, and because of that I never did, with the exception of writing, I wasn’t very good at writing during the time.
For those of you who already have enough meaning in your lives, feel free to cover your ears. It might seem to some that school has been a walk in the park for me, but I have not always been academically successful. My elementary school teacher once said I would “never be good” at math, and I could barely read until third grade. The school psychologist tested me for learning disabilities, but my parents resisted his efforts, believing a diagnosis would only discourage me.
School was a priority to my parents, much more for my father. Going to school for him meant that we had a chance at becoming professionals and earning careers that would earn twice or even five times as more of what he makes. School for me wasn’t the greatest for a while only because the teachers and students seemed unmotivated to teach and learn. Everyday was new problems either at school or home making life for a preteen difficult.It seemed as if life did not want to give me a chance to have fun. Until the day came where a reality check hit me. In a matter of seconds i had to grow up and discover that if i don’t make a change then life will continue to be meaningless. My first choice was to start with school. Classes suddenly became easier
From as early on as I can remember, I was not an enormous fan of school. I’d much rather spend my free time goofing around with my friends as opposed to studying for quizzes or doing my homework. Throughout high school, I would say my grades were mediocre at best. I was not even planning on attending college; I was planning on going to a trade school to become a mechanic. It wasn’t until I experienced higher education firsthand and had a few talks with my parents when I realized that, to have the greatest possible quality of life, one has to attend college.
During my childhood, I was very outgoing, adventurous and curious like any other typical child. At that time I was the only child, so I was spoiled by everybody in my family. As I progressed up in age, school became a big part of my life. I fell in love with being able to learn and interact with other kids. My grades were always above average, because my mother was very hard on me about my education. School was no joke for me, some kids may not enjoyed school but I loved it. Two people in my life who were always involved in my education were
School has always offered a powerful and entertaining challenge for me, starting with the third grade when Gifted and Talented classes started. These “GT” classes offered a more fast-paced alternative to math and science classes. This accelerated pace forced me from a young age to retain and apply a large amount of information in short amount of time. My teacher showed me how to take notes efficiently and to understand what I was learning, not just memorize it. Transferring from elementary to middle school, I was introduced to honors classes. I continued to work and improve as fast as I could. This allowed me to enter my freshman year of highschool and start with algebra 1 and english one under my belt. My sophomore year of highschool, I doubled
When I was a kid, school for me was waking up early in the morning. I also have to study a lot in school, then after school I have to do homework. I remember my first day at school. My mom and dad, both were so happy and prepared but I was so nervous and cheerless. I didn’t like to wake up early in the morning for school , but as time flew by I started loving school which made me wake up with energy instead of tiredness. I began to enjoy the school as I made new friends and I got to know how it is like when you meet people out of your neighborhood. With my friends I had lunch together and study together. I started to understand what the purpose of the education system. Based on what I understood I think the purpose of education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn to be on their own. In this journey of education I had a lot of positive and few negative experiences,but the negative experiences also helped me growing. Positive experiences are my teachers helping me improve, and I improved more when I moved to the United States.
In junior High School, things started to turn around for me. Although I was still placed in lower level classes, I developed a love for learning. In the years to come from Junior High to High School, I had a strong urge to make up for lost time. One class I started to excel in was the one I used to have the most trouble with, Mathematics. It seemed as though the once boring and complex equations now seemed meaningful and simple. As I progressed into 8th grade, I was able to advance to normal classes. I felt that the hard work I put in was finally paying of. At this point, I felt that I could handle a higher level. At the end of 8th grade, I took the necessary procedures and tests to try and get into honor - level courses in 9th grade. After taking a summer course of Algebra 1 and several tests I was able to succeed and take the classes. The experience was great. I felt that I was finally going the right direction
Education is the method of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of information, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. the wealth of information acquired by an individual when studying specific topics or experiencing life lessons that give an understanding of one thing. education needs instruction of some kind from a private or composed literature. the foremost common types of education result from years of schooling that includes studies of a spread of subjects. the function of education is to show one to think intensively and to think critically. intelligence and character, that's the goal of true education. the goal of education isn't to extend the quantity of information however to form the possibilities for a child to create and see, to make men capable of doing new things. it's the foremost powerful weapon that we are able to use to alter the world.
My educational experience is just now beginning as of now I am taking an English class also over summer I took an online academic skills class. Although online classes don’t do college justice you don’t really get the full college experience. As of now I am just focusing on my general education then eventually I hope to attend an RN program. So as of my educational experience this far would be high school and as Dweck author of Brainology would say I had a fixed mindset during high school even during grade school. Fixed mindsets care so much about how smart they will appear that they will reject learning opportunities. Which is exactly what I did during high school. Always thought as long as I was passing why try harder to get a better grade. Even if getting a better grade wouldn’t necessarily be hard.