My education remains important to me because it the key component of my successful future as an individual. The experiences I have been through, from elementary school to high school, have opened my eyes to the different types of education different schools have to offer. The schools that I have been to have required me to go through change that takes time. I have always been considerate of class because the schools that I have been to include students from all social classes. I keep this in mind when I try to connect with other students. I try to make myself more approachable and productive with them, because there are certain conflicts that may make it difficult to successfully communicate with them. This has also interfered with my actual education as well, because I need to be considerate of my teachers as well. Class within education brings in many factors that put us within a group of individuals that may have a different experience with education compared to other of different classes. I attended Paramus Catholic high school, and the change from elementary school was very dramatic. This high school had about 1500 students when I joined, so making new friends was quite difficult. I was told that everyone at my school was friendly, but I didn’t believe it. I saw students from all different towns and all different social classes. I needed to make friends who I could relate to, because there were simply too many students in my school to become companions with. My first approach was to find other students of the same race as me, Filipino. The first two friends I made in high school were both Filipino, and it was easy to converse with them. After talking to them for a few days, I learned that one of them was in the working class, and the other was very wealthy. I assumed that becoming friends with them was only easy because we could connect through our backgrounds, and the idea of class division still frightened me. Afraid of making new friends, I took on the challenges of high school on my own, with no help from any of my classmates. I felt that I could be independent, especially after my parents told me to put school before friends. As a result, I stayed up late at night trying to learn all the material
I only stayed in that school for about two years until I changed schools again. Entering my eighth grade year in a public school system was very new to me. I was lucky enough to have cousins that went to that school and introduce me to their friends. I was happy that I had Hmong friends, that I was able to speak in my own native tongue again, and being more intuitive with my culture, but I still felt out of place when I was with them. Some things that I’d say or do, just didn’t click with them. I never gave up being friends with them due to them being my first real non-American friends. I had partially made connections with them, but I was also making, progress making friends with other ethnicities, trying to understand their culture, and how they lived their life. A lot of things changed within that year and as the years continued, I started to gain more friends. I know now that I will always have an equal amount of American and Asian friends with a view of how I’m in a world where I know that I will always feel at home. The other is how theses life experience has changed me. I will always be in between these two worlds, but one thing for sure is that I found my
Education is important to me, because education opens doors for people to be able to get further in life. Education lets people have to opportunity to learn things they actually have interest in or have a passion to do. It leads to better advances one could make at their own extent
In the first few years, I was reserved. Because I only hung out with the people I knew and rarely stepped out of my comfort zone back in Florida, I acted the same way moving to Georgia. Making friends wasn’t important to me because I was used to being isolated. Going on to high school, I came to a realization that I needed to step out into the world. I knew that I couldn’t always depend on myself. I needed to make connections and branch out. I took my chances and joined clubs to help not only myself but others as well. High school was also the transition of my life where I started focusing on my grades. I started working harder and as the curriculum started to get more difficult, it only motivated me to be more diligent.
People of the same social class tend to be friends. People of the same level of attractiveness tend to be drawn to each other. Athletes that play the same sports flock to each other. I feel as if often times, we fall ignorant to the real world. Sometimes, I think we close our minds off to possibilities and opportunities just because we don't expand our network and step out of our comfort zones. Everyone has a story. Growing up and going to a private Catholic school, I’ve seen this happen my whole life. The rich kids are friends with the rich kids, and everybody else just kind of coexists. My mom always told me to not be friends with someone just because you share similarities. I have carried this value on through life. By closing yourself off to one group people, you limit your exposure to different experiences. Through meeting other people and people that are different from yourself, you can expand your
In my classes, I began new friendships. Many of these friendships consisted of peers from various backgrounds and races. I enjoyed learning about new experiences, cultures, and traditions from these newfound friends. Not all of my former friends, however, were as accepting of new cultures as I was. Differences seemed to intimidate other students and, as a result, past friends began to distance themselves from me. These grade-school friends became judgemental and even hurtful in many of their actions towards me. This was the first true encounter I had with racial issues and the lack of acceptance from friends. My “star-bellied” friends seemed to think something about them was better than
I believed it was going to be difficult to make new friends. I was not sure how they reacted to new people or how their personalities were. I also was not sure how to approach them. When I began to talk with my new classmates, I realized we have many common interests. Making new friends became easier for me overtime by simply finding common interests and being kind to others.
Beside, my shyness and I did not think it necessary to make new friends anyway. Transitioning from eight grade to high school was especially difficult for me because growing up, I had always gone to school with people who looked like me, sound like me, and dressed
At the time, I had many friends but no classes with any of them. I felt lost and anxious because I didn’t know anyone around me. Eventually after a few weeks, I gained a couple of close companions,
I grew up in an extremely white suburb; I believe there was only one person of color in my elementary school. Once I got to middle school I became exposed to people with more and more diverse backgrounds. However, growing up in a college town meant that most of them were children of international students, and as a result they were only here for a couple of years. Every time I met someone new and interesting they seemed to move back to their home country before anything but a casual friendship could be formed. That was until my freshman year when I met Sergio, a kind-of-not-really foreign exchange student from Mexico.
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
When I started middle school, I was afraid of making friends. I had terrible experiences with friendships in elementary schools which lead me to make careful decisions in middle school. I was always bullied by children who came from broken homes
Philosophers say that life is one unending lesson, that the absorption of knowledge never ends. This motto is superbly represented in all of the pieces that Ms. Frankenberg’s Composition class has read, watched, or listened to. Whether this education has been obvious or not, through a classroom or another medium, it is usually delivered in lessons that are meant to last a lifetime. By dissecting all of the aspects that can be taken from these educational situations, the credit goes to those who taught them, and it is to those individuals whom we should give credit for the lesson. These lessons are great additions to their “legacy resume”, or the unofficial track of a person’s accomplishments throughout their lifetime. It is in this way that legacy can be discovered, even if legacy means something different to each individual.
Education must give a student an ability to build their own view of the world and be able to see where they fit in with the society. If a person is given information and taught how to analyze it, the person will be able to perceive their surrounding through their own unique lenses. As James Baldwin stated “if I’m the child’s parent, it is my obligation and my high duty to civilize that child” (Baldwin, pg. 197). Civilization is the ability to have a highly developed culture and understanding of society. For a human to achieve those qualities he/she must have a will and opportunities to make choices of their own and to gain a unique personality. Moreover, the person must not only develop individually, but also collectively. As a citizen of a society, the person must fit in and contribute to the surrounding community, it is the obligation of every member “to examine society and try to change it” (Baldwin, pg. 198). Furthermore, for a person to grow with the society yet stay true to oneself, the person must be well educated and understand how everything in the society works. The knowledge shouldn’t be limited to only natural science or human geography; instead it should encompass all aspects of world structure. However, a person must also be capable of deciding for themselves, by using previously obtained knowledge, to prevent their choices being forced on them by society. “As mechanics say, when one has learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft” (Emerson,
My goals in terms of my education are to learn as many new things as possible in order to acquire skills that will help me succeed in anything I choose. Education has always been an important aspect of my life. Ever since I began school, I’ve always made sure to take advantage of everything I would be taught. Growing up I was always told that education should come first before anything else and I firmly believe in since I am fortunate enough to be receiving one. I want to make a difference in the overall picture of education. There aren’t a great deal of Latina women in the STEM area and as a female, I want to change that. A part of my long term educational goal is to become a math major and be a part of STEM. I want to be a part of STEM because not only does this group helps develop essential skills, it helps contribute to the development of society’s needs and wants. As for now some of my short term educational goals that I hope to achieve are organization, speaking skills, time management, and leadership skills. I plan to use my short term goals to get to my long term goals. Being in college I have more freedom as to what classes I want to take which means more of a reason to achieve the short term goals since the workload is much more intense and I need to change how I approach things. My classes are very important to me because if they are not something I like then I will not learn anything. For example, one class I will be taking is General Chemistry. Although
Imagine what the world will be like without education. Malcolm X states that “without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.” People think they will get through life without education, but little do they know the importance of it. Educated individuals have power because they are able to understand complex info and are more informed to prevent being taken advantage of. It is also a privilege because not everyone has access to education and those who do have education get better treatment. Education is a responsibility because educated people have to act fairly and honestly. Don Cardinal did a speech about “Appreciating Your Privilege, Embracing Your Responsibility,” therefore