Research Paper On The Overachievers

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight - simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids to truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then” (Gatto 4).

“I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity” (Coates, p 26).

Children below age six perceive the world differently than we do. “The infant sees the world as populated by objects which come in and out of view, […] therefore, […] in and out of existence. Epistemically the infant’s world is utterly solipsistic” (Flanagan 144). When we think about it, this makes sense. A child doesn’t care about something unless it’s in his or her sight, since it’s all that the child knows to exist at that moment. Everything in the child’s universe is whatever he or she perceives it as in any given instant. For example, a child “will not search for a treasured rattle

Why is being curious important while you’re an adult? Well it’s important because you won’t find out anything about the world around you. You won’t find out anything new and we would still be at the same place, the Old Stone Age. The definition of curiosity is this; a strong feeling of wanting to know or learn. Be meddlesome, I’m pretty sure that some people don’t mind you being nosy about things no one has learned about. A quote; “Curiosity-millions saw an apple fall, but Newton asked why.”-Bernard Baruch. That quote is true like people could see color everyday but some people that are curious ask how and why do we see these colors, they want to learn something new. It’s not too bad to be interfering with the world around you but you might not really want to be nosy about people that you don’t know and are around you. A scene Dar was curious in was when Toreg first showed up, Dar was half scared and half curious about him. He was curious about what he was wearing, what clan he was from, and what kind of things they use. It’s important to be curious when you want to show

Before my child study, I had a feeling that advanced students were not being adequately challenged at my school; however, I completely underestimated the degree of boredom these students experience. It was very eye-opening to observe how quickly Kayson completed his classwork and then the amount of time he spent engaged in non-academic activities. Kayson often spent as much of 20 minutes engaged in non-academic conversations and “free drawing” because he completed his work so much quicker than the other students in the classroom. Any behavioral issues that Kayson had were attributed to his lack of boredom in the classroom. When he was scolded for talking with other students during work time, it was usually due to the fact that he finished early and did not have anything else to do.

Children are left to struggle with them throughout life. They look for answers to these

John Taylor Gatto wrote about the topic of boredom in his story “Against School.” He was an award-winning educator, so most believed his statements about education to be true because he was such a credible source. Gatto discusses his belief of having children learn more of what they will need to live on their own in the real world. He wants students to take their education with them out into the world instead of learning pointless material in public school that will never be applied to the real world. Gatto references this to boredom and uses it as an example of why some children do not enjoy school. Material that is required to be taught bores students easily, and does not expand their minds to subjects they are interested in. He asks, “Do we really need school? I don’t mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years” (Gatto, page 148-149). Students are trained to become addicts of everyday school and it strips them of responsibility and independence. Eventually, once we can understand the tricks and traps of public schooling, we can avoid them.

Paradoxically, Steve Jobs, David Green, and Richard Branson all failed to graduate with a college education, but society still views them as intelligent. Presently, the movie From Prada to Nada and the writing “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” both represent the idea of economic inequality. However, in “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” it is conveyed that having an education will set you higher in the class system, but does not determine your intelligence. “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” is written by Mike Rose who portrays the intelligence of white-collar workers through past experiences and observations. In the movie From Prada to Nada it shows the differences between economic classes by portraying the lifestyle switch from upper to lower class as the two

Discoveries can challenge our preconceived ideas about ourselves and others, allowing us to experience things in a different way than we otherwise would. Grant’s speech explores

In my observation mentally with Mr. Roses essay on blue collar brilliance, Mr Rose tries to tell the reader on the different levelsof work there is for high educated people opposed to the non educated. Furthermore he tries express through his family experiences in the work environment how a person with a manual labor is not so different than a person with a high level of education, they are equal in job to job views but not in society.

Part of adulthood is learning to cope with boredom as well as petty frustrations, and professor Wallace suggests that if I change my perspective, I may not be as bored or frustrated.

The crisis of boredom is a topic explored by Douglas Todd, the religion and ethics writer for the Vancouver Sun, in “Beware the Boredom Boom” he states that chronic boredom is a matter to be concerned about as it raises” “complex questions about the human condition.” He supports this matter by giving examples of published authors and their works about boredom. He points out that despite having many things to fill our time with, we are still looking for more novel things to do to keep our attention. He explains that almost three out of four North Americans say they crave more novelty in their lives and there are sixty nine percent of people that agree with this. He notices that it isn’t just students and seniors

As primitive as it may seem, most small children behave in a rather random manner repeating behaviors that get a desired or positive reaction. Some children, by chance or

What means to be a successful student? Being productive at studies, working at part-time job, or expressing talents? Yes, in the modern world all these activities can characterize a student as a successful one. The reason for this statement is that the time when the only student’s mission was to study had passed. Our life gets faster and faster rhythm, so it is very important to be everywhere and to do everything. I, as a student, see this picture very clear in daily life: parents expect the highest grades in the University, employers ask for more work experience, and, finally, the talents should be expressed. Definitely, there is no necessity to do all this things in certain period of life, but there is a possibility to do it. Looking to

Humans crave knowledge. It’s hard-wired into our DNA. Without discovery, we would never have left the cave, invented the wheel or flown to outer space. Human development need new