Motivational Exploits of a Magsaysay Awardee: What Inspires Me the Most

Education is an important necessity in every human being’s life. For some, school is just a dreadful constitution that people must sit in for 8 hours a day, eagerly waiting to get a diploma and move on in their next stage in life, however, for others it is life-saving and both Richard Rodriguez and Sherman Alexie can say this is their case. Education has made a great influence on both Alexie and Rodriguez’s life. Although both authors faced alienation due to their ethnic background, Alexie continuously keeps in touch with his Indian roots and family while Rodriguez has lost any contact that he has attained with his family and Mexican origins.

The world is not a cultivating place for scientists. Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein; or a Modern Prometheus and Will Rodman, from Rise of the Planet of the Apes, are met with constant opposition to their studies and goals. The current state of scientific research is embodied in both these works. Both protagonists are restricted creatively and shunned by their peers. And if a scientist does not succeed or make a new and benefiting discovery, they are shunned even more and judged by society.

It was more than fifteen years ago that I entered the laboratory of Professor Agassiz, and told him I had enrolled my name in the scientific school as a student of natural history. He asked me a few questions about my object in coming, my antecedents generally, the mode in which I afterwards proposed to use the knowledge I might acquire, and finally, whether I wished to study any special branch. To the latter

As I sit here and contemplate what accomplishments I have achieved over my life span I can't particularly pick one defining moment out of the many I have. You see when most people think " accomplishment," the thought that comes to mind is that the accomplishment has to be something big, substantial. Now for the most part I agree with that theory, but in that case I've never accomplished anything monumental. I mean what makes an accomplishment an accomplishment is that it took effort and perseverance right? In that case I've accomplished a lot I accomplish things on a daily basis. Waking up this morning was a huge accomplishment for me today being that I only got four hours of sleep. I can accomplish things all day, but the big accomplishments as you call them I don't really consider accomplishments, getting into National Honors a Society was an "accomplishment" by your definition but to me that was just a result done by hard work that paid off. I know I'm hard worker and a good student, but getting into National Honors Society wasn't a task or chore, but a expected result.

A rather unique development in this world of Herland, is the degree to which the natives of this society deeply value education as the primary influence shaping the children of the next generation. In fact, to ensure that the correct education is received, the children are administered by specialists, rather than trusting the matters in the private hands of the mother. Learning is encouraged through experiences, work and in every stage of life advocated to steer each individual toward

I strongly believe that there nonfictional article written by Barbara Hehner and Julie Pisani called “Medicins Sans Frontieres” will inspire many youths around the world. I strongly believe that it will inspire many young people including me because of the following

In becoming the scholarship boy Rodriguez had lost all connection with his family. He also began to listen to the more worldly advice that his parents had to offer less and less, “Stupidly I took for granted their enormous amount of native intelligence” (551). Parents have experienced way more

My father made a pact with my uncle that if my father had a child and since my uncle was far more educated my uncle, Jorgen Brahe would raise me as his own. At first, I wanted to pursue Latin and Law, so my uncle sent me to the University of Leipzig, and that’s where I fell in love with astronomy. My family always ridiculed me for pursuing astronomy, but my uncle always supported me.

Those who know me, know that I have been a Scout since I was 8. Those who know me also know that I don’t do things half way - I try to do them to the best of my ability. As a 8 year old Scout, I knew I wanted to get the Super Achiever Award, which is the highest honor for Cub Scouts. I knew it wasn’t just what I wanted. I also needed had to know how I’d get it too.

Times change, values change, and views of best educational practices change but Brickman stuck with his beliefs even when the tides of education changed. Unlike Brickman, Paulo Freire was born to an affluent family in Redife, Brazil (Flanagan, 2005). Freire was exposed to peasants, the poverty they lived in, and their apparent acceptance that they simply acknowledged their role in society (Flanagan, 2005). Freire brought to light that education was used to keep the classes in society, the oppressed stayed oppressed, and the affluent stayed affluent.

Technology has made great advances on a global scale, especially within the last half century. Works of fiction and informational texts have addressed the numerous uses of modern innovation. These technological advances have the potential to make one’s personal life better, but could be detrimental to the world as a whole.

According to the first chapter of the book, the results from Anne Roe’s study on the sixty-four “outstanding physical, social and biological scientists” was that learning was highly valued in all their homes as was in the families of the Four Hundred. In addition, “generally, the fathers and mothers showed overprotection and also firm control. These children also pursued their rather independent paths and followed their own particular interests with more than usual intensity.”

I received leadership awards in recognition of my community involvement and projects through the Youth Leadership Long Beach organization from the Mayor of Long Beach, Robert Garcia; California State Assemblymember, Patrick O'Donnell; the Youth Leadership Long Beach organization; Congressman Alan Lowenthal; and the Los Angeles County. Additionally, I received another award from Congressman Alan Lowenthal for my completion of the Young Women's Summer Leadership Program hosted by the Congressman.

The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its introduction into education would remove the conventionality, artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic; of classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in 5 their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull 10 and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid. The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it teaches

Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart, once said, “With the pupils... show them that you want to help them acquire a solid and pious education, enhanced by learning, and thus make them happy” (Barat). Barat made it evident that there is a huge impact as a result of education. This impact can be personal in the way that Barat described it as education making people happy to an impact on a society as a whole. It is commonly known that an education allows for a person to improve their life, their social class, and their job. Education also allows for societies to improve and advance. Education and societal advancements are directly related. It is obvious, especially to people who have benefitted from schooling, that an education is absolutely fundamental to a person’s and a society’s successes. Across the world, there are people who may have access to a proper education, but they do not have the proper supplies and tools that they need to benefit from that education. While there have been great strides in reforming education and the lack thereof across the world, much more needs to be done, whether it be in Sub-Saharan Africa or St. Louis, MO, to fully achieve universal primary education.