My Beauty Of Life

“As many as one in three first-year students won't make it back for sophomore year” (“Freshmen retention rate”). It just so happened that I followed that statistic. Many colleges do not care much if students drop out or flunk out once their tuition checks have been cashed (Los Angeles Times).Growing up in a very strict household and attending private Catholic school, I was ready to spread my wings and fly. I was looking forward to that independence, my own rules and living on my own. I was enthusiastic to get started on my college journey. In my mind, I was about to live the dream. I would experience my own place to live, no rules, and get to hang out with friends! Oh, and college, too. I was not prepared to be so distracted

My personality was stretched to its maximum that mid-way through the week, I had been with at least other person 24/7 and I desperately NEEDED some Me Time. I also felt homesick since the longest I'd been away from home was 3 days and 2 nights, never 6 days and 5 nights. I went to that program enthusiastically, and because of my motivation to absorb as much as I could, I made a lot of friends and learn new things to help me being leader and applying for college next year. This experience has put me in perspective of the saying, "Being out of your comfort zone makes you

Some see school as a fun environment to come to everyday, while others dread to wake up and count down the amount of days until they are out of Hell. The author of “3 Destructive Things School Taught You Without You Even Knowing”, would have picked the second option, based on his article about schools. While there are some good points made throughout the article, to support his feelings, I have to say that he did not convince me.

I still maintain to this day that school is a place to learn languages, learn maths, learn history, and, most importantly, learn how to learn. It is not a place to learn conformity or regulations that have no bearing on society, or becoming a drone who automatically accepts everything an authority figure tells them.

The beginning of my college experience was as typical as any other: I missed my family, friends, and home. Being uprooted from familiar soil and forced to settle in a garden teeming with (obnoxious) roommates, communal

There are two types of school in this world and that is the schools that are between individuality and conformity. There are a lot of issues that school focus on that aren’t really necessary. Some schools focus on points likes dress code or testing or discipline. There are other schools that are more carefree and don’t really focus on forring thing except timing. School sometimes may even be thought as unimportant because the policies are so strict.

I agree with this quote Martin Luther King Jr. The public school system, while designed with learning in mind, seems to be a food-chain of popularity. Children seem to worry more about how popular they are or how many friends they have as opposed to learning. While socializing is good, learning is still important. Likewise, an education without building character is also less effective. It is important for schools to emphasize both education and building character so students can be ready for both employment and

Although my parents were still living, and always just a phone call away, I felt as though I was on my own. I developed a sense of independence that I had never been exposed to before. Thus, I believe that the transition to college will be much less stressful for me as an individual since I have already experienced the changes that come along with attending a new school. For example, I am now accustomed to the large jump in population in an educational setting, I am capable of making new acquaintances through intelligent conversation, and I have developed the skills of surviving on my own, away from the safety of my parents. These skills will be necessary in the business field, which is what my intended area of study is. Ultimately, through my decision to move away from the only home I had ever known, I have started down a path of adulthood, and have found it in myself to forgive others no matter what the circumstance happens to be. Therefore, although this transition from childhood to maturity may have been stressful, it has proven to be beneficial when I examine the bigger picture; my

“See nothing, hear nothing, you may not have any beliefs.” Many people think that conformity is harmful to children and that it makes them less imaginative, but not necessarily. School is an important part of people's lives, but we shouldn’t let them get away with being too lazy. Schools should have a daily bell schedule and kids should attend school every day, but we shouldn’t force kindergarteners to go through standardized testing. Children should conform to the ‘system’ but we shouldn’t stress them out. We shouldn’t make young children stress out about a big test that will change their future forever. We should have some conformity in schools but not to the point where it makes people overly stressed-out and anxious. School shouldn’t be like a prison.

To those who ask how education could possibly accomplish what decades of conflict could not, I say remember that there is no enmity significant enough to overpower enlightenment—the heart of fear is ignorance. Education must become the highest priority of government if we are to reap its tremendous dividends. There will be a marked reduction in crime when new opportunities replace old. The alleviation of poverty begins with the end of financial illiteracy, coming through proactive education. Perhaps the most immense is the profound unity that forms when students realize the importance of having a vision—without a vision, progress appears aimless. Equipped with education and a vision, cooler heads and open minds will

People usually mention the cliche that schools have the sole purpose of brainwashing, any ignorant student, from the very day they enroll in kindergarten up until their graduation date twelve years later. Schools are designed to teach some sort of conformity, but without that guiding path, students will surely fall under an eternal void because of their lack of interest.

We need to learn how to be nice and respect each other to create the peaceful world, and schools would be the easiest place to spread the idea since parents would be involved, too. If “anti-bias education” becomes the mainstream of educational philosophy all over the world, the world would become more peaceful and caring

Students may not like going to school but, it is for the best. By going to school students can get an education and get a job or go to college and

The author illustrates what he can best describe as the way that just about all schools function, regardless as to whether they are public schools, catholic schools, or even colleges and universities, he describes them as boring. The author also does bring up multiple times and raises the claim that children and young adults should not be reduced to only learning in brick buildings, but to make time and learn outside the narrow mindedness that schools represent. The claims he make are valid and have some truth behind them. Many students are given and being fed information in which they are programmed like machines to think and behave in a certain fashion. As the author does mention the text when children are learning to walk and speak for the first times they do face difficulty but are not being monitored

I can proudly say that I am happy of the person I am becoming . Throughout