My Interest In Education

Learning has always been my passion. When I was younger, I would spend hours pouring over dictionary pages, trying to decrypt the hidden messages of jumbled up symbols. I would take a book and invent stories to go along with the pictures. Nothing ever stopped me from trying to understand things. When I turned 4, my dad finally taught me to read. We would sit on the couch, me sounding out each word and my dad correcting me after each mispronunciation. The experience was enthralling. Ever since that moment, I have been passionate about learning. When given the opportunity to learn, I seize it. In this way, I identify most with the Scholarship aspect of the Nation Honors Society. Education has never been the means to gain a degree, but rather the means to expand my knowledge.

Growing up education was always very important to my father. At a very young age he instilled the importance of being literate into me and my siblings. To my father education was power and knowledge was king. I was able to read and write by age two and a half. I thrived in school and a love for reading and writing grew. My love for learning began to match my fathers as I grew.

Education is something that I have always valued. My passion for learning has only intensified since I was a child. I crave the constant challenge that comes with learning because it’s how I know that I am bettering myself. I have always been a very self-dependant person, and education

Ever since I was a little girl my education has been something that I held very close to my heart. My family always explained education to me as something vital to a successful life and as something you couldn’t simply just do the bare minimum to get by. They always encouraged my learning and presented it in a fun, enjoyable way. To say the least, I took this lesson my family instilled in me very seriously. Because of this, I have spent the majority of my life doing the most I can and giving my best, hardest effort to become more knowledgeable about anything and everything around me.

Attaining an education, or simply learning, has always been a rather important component of my life. From an early age, I was captivated by the idea of knowledge; of discovering things I did not know existed; it slowly became my dream to learn as much as I possibly could. As I got older I also realized that a good education had a significantly high correlation with opportunities in respectable careers. I also began to understand that in addition to my hopes and dreams of getting an education, my parents also shared the same hopes and dreams for myself along with the hope that I would be able to establish a career for myself. It was truly evident as I continued to grow, with the guidance of my parents that I wished to dedicate my life to learning and to invest in an education.

Next to God and my family, my education has always been the most important thing in my life. Early on in life, my dad instilled in me the importance of have a well-rounded education. He rang in my ears and that of my brother how lucky we were to go to school and how every learning situation should be maximized. Growing up from a poor family, he understood the importance of a good education more than we ever could. By the time I was in elementary school I realized that I had a knack for the sciences and also discovered something that would change me for a very long time. I realized that babies didn’t come from the sky but through the mom’s belly. It was the most amazing thing I ever learned in all of my childhood years. This was when I unconsciously made a decision to study biology and to understand all of life’s “magic”. Over the years, my love and respect for biology never weathered and I made up

For someone of the autism spectrum, I am getting more opportunities out of my education than what most people would think. I have published my own research, set up dinosaur skeletons, and I have even got some hands on experience with digging for fossils in New York. I work incredibly hard to achieve my goals and to make my dreams come true. The world will see that even though I am on the autism spectrum, I am capable of doing anything. The only thing that is in the way is the great amount of finances necessary to continue my education at Mercyhurst. Given that it is a private school and one of the top 100 best colleges in the United States, the tuition is very expensive.

As a child, my love for dinosaurs was huge. I was so interested by their size, their habits, and how all of their lives vanished one day. That is why my favorite book growing up as a kid was Danny and the Dinosaur. I loved this book not only because it showed pictures of the dinosaur, but because of how Danny and the dinosaur became friends. Danny wished that he could become alive and be friends with him. All of a sudden, the dinosaur starts talking! The messages I learned from this book as a kid were if you wish for something enough, it might happen if you keep believing in it.

Education is one of the most difficult matters in human life, because it involves the society as a whole and the individual. People have many different ways of learning, and often these methods fall into what are called, traditional and nontraditional educations. Traditional education is to attend classes at school where there are teachers and pupils. Nontraditional education may involve traveling, hands-on experiences, or reading. However, these two types of education are based upon five components of education: experience, curiosity, mentoring, communication, and commitment.

From as early as I can remember, I have always had a passion for learning and education. Having a father who was once high school chemistry teacher and a mother who was a nurse made for a fertile upbringing in the sciences. Our dinner discussions ranged from hydrogen bonding and valence electron shell repulsion theory to the changing of colostomy bags and other patient bodily functions, the latter of which I sometimes grimaced at when pudding was planned later for dessert. Looking back, I was very blessed to have a family that instilled many immensely important qualities into me as a child.

Learning has always been on of my favorite things to do. Partially because I've always done well in school, but also due to my innate desire to know everything. I hate not understanding anything whether it be how a battery works or why a person makes the choices they do. As a teenager, I have been in school all my life, which has been my primary source of information. Classroom education can certainly have its limits due to the confined environment, but my teachers and classes have opened my mind to see the world around me. The simplest things like basic addition and plural noun conventions seem so obvious to me now, but at one point, I had a teacher to explain these concepts to me. As these lessons have evolved into solving differential equations and composing analysis of complex literary works, I have been able to expand my brain. My learning experiences have expanded beyond the classroom in a more immersive, hands-on capacity. With my parents, I have been able to travel both inside and outside the country, showing me about different cultures and ways of life. Moreover, my time doing competitive robotics and

Over 62 million dollars of cash federal assistance were misallocated in Arizona’s Department of Education in 2015. This dramatic mistake was not fixed until early 2017. It took the department two years to put serious effort into fixing the problem of not properly funding schools that have a high percentage of low-income students. This is a recent example, but the issue of misuse financial distribution for schools has been a problem for more than forty years. The schools that I attended were low-income schools meaning that certain resources that were available to other schools were not available to us. My peers and I were told that we were receiving a high-quality education and yet we were behind compared to other schools in the county,

The passion for studying, it all started at home, from my parents who remind me every day how important it is to learn. I remember how every Sunday night; my mother would ask me to prepare for a new week of school. She made this our ritual, as we would check together

Taking all these experiences into account, education has played a huge role in my life. Funnily enough, I owe my existence to education. I will admit that I haven’t always been motivated by academics. The lust for knowledge was never the sole driving factor for me attending the University like it was for my grandmother. Until very recently, I had no Idea what I wanted to do with life unlike my mom and dad. Both my parents pressed hard for my brother and me to go to college. Taking that into account I made a promise to myself that I would graduate college, because I do agree with what my mom said, “Higher education is a strong component in controlling one’s destiny”. Ideally, one day I’d like to be my own boss and higher education, I feel, is the best way of achieving this goal.

Education had always engrossed. As an only child to a disabled single mother, I had a lot of spare time on my hands, I usually filled it with fumbling around in the grass. I was the odd one. People would eye me as I dug up rocks and say I was making new types of fruits (really I just planted two different seeds next to each other). So my mother got me books on all types of things. Because if I was going to be silly, I should at least be accurate.