Successful Student or a Competent Learner

I refused to ever let someone replace me on the track again. Not only did I earn that respect, I demanded it. My workouts were no longer a social hour, but a boot camp. I was the hardest working undersized athlete in the program. My junior track season finally arrived, yet once again I would not have the chance to compete for a junior varsity district championship. No, this year I competed for a varsity district championship. My efforts in the offseason led to a promotion on the team. The lingering emotions of anger and disappointment were replaced with gleaming pride. My previous failure had propelled me to success within a single

The students in this track were often labeled as “unruly, and not motivated” and of course the parents and students are faced with embarrassment which can be tragic just from an error this school had made. If Professor Rose had not taken that single Biology course his sophomore year in “Our Lady of Mercy” his educational career as a professor would not have been a success. It is always very important teachers understand the importance and responsibility of their role that is in these student’s everyday lives, they shape the way these students think, and understand everyday education we use. During the essay Ken Harvey mentions that he just wants to be average and considers himself to be below average while Rose is thinking to himself what an absurd comment it was. When an individual is constantly told that he or she is not smart they can’t do this or that it lowers their confidence and they actually start working at that level and not striving for the highest standard. Teachers and or professors have many responsibilities including the most important one which is knowing and making sure the student or child understands every single lesson they teach.

In his essay “What Does It Mean To Be Well-Educated,” Alfie Kohn challenges the current standards that people consider crucial in order for a person to be considered well-educated and explores some interesting questions that help provide the reader with a completely different understanding, perspective, and possibility for standards of good education. At the beginning, Kohn explains how people can argue about the purpose of education, but then fail to realize and recognize whether or not education has truly been successful. Then, Kohn provides the reader with an example of his wife, a successful physician who completed her study for doctoral dissertation in anthropology from Harvard, yet still lacks some educational basics that people consider necessary factors to possess in order for a person to fit in the defined group of well-educated individuals. (Kohn 231-232). After that, Kohn explores some definitions that people set as essential measurements for determining whether or not a person is well-educated and explains why all these standard definitions fail to either evaluate a person’s knowledge or make a person knowledgeable. For example, many people consider test scores, seat time, job skills, and memorization of facts as indicators of well-education. However, Kohn explains that sitting in class for a certain amount of time, “reducing schooling to vocational preparation…to suit the demands of employers,” receiving high results on tests, and memorization of pieces of

In the essay, “Education”, the author, Ralph Waldo Emerson shares his perspective of what an ideal education would look like. Among other things, Emerson wholeheartedly believes that a student must bloom on their own with little to no interjections from teachers. He urges the audience that in order to have a quintessential educational system in the United States, teachers must follow a laissez-faire policy and “respect the child”. However, throughout the essay, Emerson makes numerous assumptions, one of these being in paragraph 10 when he argues that “every young man [and woman] is born with some determination in his [or her] nature, and is a potential genius.” This statement is undoubtedly true. No matter the person, the characteristic of determination is innate, and it’s possible, but not guaranteed, for anyone to become what society labels as a “genius”.

Mike Rose blames the failing success of students fully on teachers when in reality teachers have the ability and responsibility to be the savior, but in order for teachers to become the savior they have to be fully qualified to teach their curriculum. Mike Rose wrote this essay about himself when he was a student, now back then teachers were ill prepared and could teach any curriculum that they wished even though they weren’t fully educated in that area. The educational system has changed since then and teachers are now more fully equipped with knowledge for a certain field that

Education gives common people the means to turning dreams into reality. Education allows common people to open up their minds to various possibilities, that will arise from becoming educated. But, yet there are times where our education systems do not uphold student/learners to a high norm. Although, problems with education systems rarely occur, inadequate performance in school can be feasible if there are issues within the child’s household. Nonetheless, students who face inconsistent dilemmas, fail since they attempt to solve both problems.

Every student in every school, belongs to a different household, with a different family, and different ways of living their lives. Not every student falls under one same reason as to why they fail in school. And what each of these researchers are doing, is giving an entire article over one reason they think is good enough, but the truth is, a researcher is not capable of writing an article over one single reason and believe they have solved the mystery. There is no “general idea” as to why. Teachers, principals and researchers categorize every failing student as unsuccessful, but it is that same reason that drives those same students towards where they are headed. I’ve seen this in my younger brother who is a sophomore. He started failing from the minute my stepfather starting shooting him down for his “C” grades in Junior High. That lessened my brother’s potential and lessened his idea of being successful. After every school meeting, every detention, every phone call; He gave up. All this attention he was receiving, he didn’t want it, nor did he need it to succeed. There’s a difference between wanting to help a student, and simply wasting time on one. What these teachers, principals, and my stepfather did, was waste their time and my brother’s. Because in the end, he didn’t care to change. Especially with continuous judgment, categorizing and comparisons to other children or family members. In the article, “Kewauna’s Ambition”,

People believe that in order to be Smart, you have to become Smart, in other hands the brain works like a machine, the more you teach it, the more it learns. Usually students with a Growth Mindset are most likely to Succeed in Society. The changes that should be changed in Schools is that Students should be Congratulated on how hard they’ve worked on an Assignment etc.,“Wow… that’s a really good score, must of Worked hard” (25). The Researcher has Experimented the students with Test to see how they do and how they react to it. College students may pick up this Article to Study for Child Behavior, Counselors may also read this Article to get an ideal on how and why students Fail or Succeed. Schools should complement on how they're doing their work for it can motivate them, “We found that intelligence praise encouraged a fixed mindset more often than did pats on the back for effort” (25). Comparing the Two Articles “Marita’s Bargain” shows how they got their Intelligence unlike this article which states why students Fail or Succeed. After all, the students should be Praised for their efforts and not their

From our readings in Outliers we’ve learned how difficult it is to succeed in life without hard work and savvy. Even geniuses have been known to underachieve if their intelligence fails to match a great work ethic. Other factors come into play as well that help those who have ascended in a field reach their potential” Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up.” (pg. 67 Gladwell) For those of us that lack the hidden advantages afforded to the wealthy, we look to education in order to bridge the gap between, what society deems as success and failure which presents its own interesting challenges. Being smart enough to excel in higher education

In ‘Miseducating the Young’, David Brooks uses metaphors along with life expectation of growing up and questions that propose how society is able to prepare the next generation for their future in a way for them to navigate everything life throws towards them. David Brooks talks about how college students are left to figure out their life the moment after they receive their diplomas. Brooks continues to mention about how children are placed into school for years and years becoming book smart, but students are not receiving meaningful tactics on how to prepare for their future in the real world.

The authors mentioned are proof of the phobia that comes with the process of becoming educated. Rodriguez was so obsessed in remaking himself that he allowed his priority aside, his family. Undoubtedly, he became aware of this truth, nevertheless through great pain. Similarly, bell hooks did not have the financial support, resources, and opportunities, as her classmates. Nonetheless, she did not permit the stereotypes to categorize her. It is true education bestows tremendous power, but it also requires great responsibility from oneself and

Education plays a very significant role when it comes to completing the identity that you would want to be in the future. It’s a cloth that we wear in order to make an appeal to everyone we meet on a daily basis. It serves as our identity that will carry your name in any establishment you may go. Education is considered as a vital component to say that you’re a rational being who’s capable of competing with the ever-widening and toilsome challenges along the road as we grow up. It introduces us into different aspects of what we call life in order to hone us and shape us into the best person that we could become. But what makes a person educated? What makes a person successful? Does education really make one person successful? Is the correlation

education, a student can access their toolbox of senses and resources as they adventure as a puzzle piece of society. Some people who do not pursue higher education are therefore not as well equipped. As Plato (306) would say, “I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable

Mary Sherry graduated from Dominican University with a degree in English and began to write articles during the raising of her family. Her love of writing mixed with her interest in education led to her founding and owning a small research and publishing firm in Minnesota. Sherry’s interests have also led her to teach creative and remedial writing to adults. Her pieces range from general subjects to those concerning spirituality, which have appeared on a multitude of different journals and news websites. Sherry has also written at least one book called The Spiritual Spa: Getting Away Without Going Away. Aside from her success as a writer, she has seen success with politics in her town of Burnsville, Minnesota, where she was elected to serve as a member of the Burnsville City Council in 2008 and 2012. After reading the piece, I wonder what made her want to write about the importance of flunking students that aren’t ready to move on to the next grade. I wonder if she was maybe influenced by her son’s own experience with the threat of being flunked, or if the inciting factor was something more general.

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