The Challenges And Challenges Of Education

My motivation for furthering my education is to become a doctor. I feel obligated to be a doctor because I love knowing things about the human body and how they various parts work together. In addition, I want to be a doctor is because I love working with kids. I am a people person and especially children, which is something we the public needs more of in the medical community. More doctors that truly care about. I believe posses what it takes to do the job. Furthermore, I have watched many of my family members struggle with their finances due to the lack of job stability and I intend to carry on a different financial future .

in high school some challenges did approach me, I did not let myself down and I was determined

Throughout my life I faced a lot of challenges. I had to overcome the obstacle that was on my way. The obstacle made me stronger and made me the person who I am right now a ambitious and hardworking student. The problem shaped me up because I know that I have to work for what I want and to not depend on no one, this made me more independent. Also, I learned from my mistake and try to do better.

For instance, as a child it was important for me to help make things better, my parents’ say I sought to assist others. If someone was sick; I was trying to give them medicine, comfort them, take their temperature and make them happy again. I knew I wanted to be a pediatrician.

My personal statement: The wish to become a doctor did not come to me right away. It has been a long process of figuring out what is the right path for me. After reading books, volunteering at a hospital, and withdrawing from science courses I saw medicine as my future path. Furthermore, I knew exactly which field of medicine I wanted to dedicate my life to. When I first arrived to the United States my English skills were very limited.

When I was younger, I knew what I wanted to do in life and that was to make a difference in the world. That has been my goal ever since I was 9 years old. My parents would always tell me that everyone is on this earth for a reason. I went to college at Stanford University for two years then dropped out to pursue my company, Theranos, full time.

Pursuing a higher education empowers me with the gracious skills of lifelong learning and an appetite for intellectual growth, and personal development. The motivation to pursue higher education first comes from my parents who have been instrumental in encouraging me to accomplish my goals. As a child, I loved playing doctor with my father, who suffered with a silent disability of Post-Traumatic Stress disorder creating a physiological disorder. For years, I dreamed of becoming a doctor where my fingers had healing powers, that magically transform my father to his former self. I appreciate his influence in my pursuit of medicine. His voyage through the medical profession has shown me the importance of obtaining a higher education when your passion aligns with your heart. Education is the key to creating the change that I wish to see, not only for myself, but for the world around me.

Being from a third world country and having to grow up there for a while I have learned the importance of never giving up and to rather face a challenge head on, work hard, and essentially be able to overcome that challenge. All my life I have been faced with challenges ranging from poverty, emotional challenges, and just wanting to do well for myself and my family. Once my family and I moved to the United States of America I finally had an opportunity to education so my biggest goal for myself at the time was to do well in school and eventually work towards a degree after leaving high school. I managed to accomplish this goal through elementary school to the present as I was constantly on the honor roll year after year, in honor programs,

Since my childhood, my mother has always told me to imagine who and where I wanted to be. Growing up in the family I did, and being the first-born, I was always expected to do the best academically and nothing less. For me, that expectation was quite simple to maintain throughout my academic career. When I was younger, my grandmother had a stroke. At, that moment, the only person capable of saving her life, was the neurosurgeon. After witnessing that miracle was life that he gave her, I was sure of one thing. One day, I wanted to perform the same miracle and more. Self discovery is a process that one undergoes as changes occur. As I learn more about myself, I know that medicine is not only a field of study I am pursuing because of expectations of my

I had dreams and the only way I knew how to live out my dreams was through education. Although I fell into temptation as an adolescent, I never stopped attending school. During the end of my freshman year I found out I was having a baby girl. I knew I had to succeed more than ever, just to prove to her there is a way out of poverty. I had very little to offer her, so I was a single mother on welfare. I had many sleepless nights and moments that I just wanted to give up, but I pulled through and was able to attend East

Too young to remember when my parents moved back to Jamaica, the land of their birth, but old enough to know that there was something strikingly different between living in New York and living in Jamaica. Before entering primary school my dad gave me the Atlas of Human Anatomy, I never cared for the big words then but those pictures peeked my interest even more. I guess my dad figured I was interested in medicine since I always tried to study the anatomy of dead insects and how close I was to our dogs. Growing up in Jamaica I worked in the clinic and a pharmacy on my summer and Christmas breaks. I always wanted to be a doctor so getting this type of experience was so exciting. My grandparents died of medical reasons a couple years apart in Jamaica, my parents were upset with the quality of medical care they had received and the fact that so many of their questions went unanswered. I was never upset with the doctors because I never knew anything about medicine at that time, but the situation made me more resolute to becoming a doctor because I never wanted to see another family hurt like I saw my parents hurting. My brothers and I used to give out cooked meals on Christmas morning to the homeless; it was quite extraordinary to see the positive impact such a small gesture could have on so many. Through these experiences I realized that my life would be most fulfilled working directly to improve the life of other through medicine.

I often think about the quote Frederick Douglass declared: “if there is no struggle, there is no progress.” This quote has driven me to develop a steadfast perseverance towards achieving success. My family immigrated to the United States when my brother and I were young. I was the first person in my family to graduate from high school and attend college. Ever since I was a little girl, my mother made sure that my brother and I understood the value of education. She was married before she even hit high school and she vowed to make sure that my brother and I succeeded. The value of working hard and not taking anything for granted in life are highly stressed at home, which motivated me to do well in school.

Over the years, I have overcome challenges so as to attain my desired goals, I call them dreams. At each point of my life, these dreams have always seemed so far-fetched. I have battled fears and anxiety of the “what if”, but today, I put a smile on my face for every hurdle that has made me stronger and pushed me forward. I was born and raised in a small village in western part of Kenya in a polygamous family consisting of a total of 14; two moms, my dad, seven brothers and four sisters. We joked around that we could make a soccer team. My father was a farmer, my mother was a nurse, and my step-mum was a teacher. I was lucky that my parents valued education and they stretched themselves just so that we could attain a good education. At the time, girl education was not imperative at it is today in Africa. Society encouraged sending of boys to school, while girls lingered around homes helping with household duties with the hope that someday an educated boy would come along and marry them. I was fortunate, my father believed in much more for us. My parents believed we could be better, they pushed us hard and instilled determination and hard work in us. Today my siblings and I are very thankful because it they instilled in us the zeal to succeed.

As a young girl being the daughter of two Mexican immigrants, who came to this country to seek for a better life for them and for their children. My main goal after graduating high school is to continue my education no matter what. As a young little girl my dream was to become a ob/gyn. Growing up was a little rough my parents got separated and my father left us leaving my mom as our only support system for my siblings and I. The only person as my father figure was my two oldest brothers who always encouraged me to do my best in school. Growing up into a young lady I still held onto that dream, going into high school my freshman year I still knew that I wanted to be a ob/gyn. During my freshman year I didn’t do so hot in school, so I knew that during my sophomore year of high school I had to step up my game. On the very first day of school of my sophomore year my English teacher made us write three goals on a piece of paper that we wanted to accomplish by the end of the year or accomplish in life over all. I wrote my three goals down which were, to pass all my classes and finals with good grades, to become a doctor, and to continue my education after high school no matter what. As the end of my sophomore year approached I was very proud of myself for having good grades. So all the way up to my senior year in high school I made a promise to myself to continue working hard for what I wanted in life and to keep striving for excellence in school and sports.

This article examines the challenges of learning that teachers and students are being faced with now in the “traditional” classroom. It is believed that students are not being able to use their “higher-order” thinking because they are not being provided with contextual support that enables them to actually apply what they are being taught. It has been said that the lack of focus on higher order learning is due to the state standardized testing that the students are required to take each year. The lack of providing contextual support is particularly concerning when considering opportunities in the poor, lower funded rural areas of the US. Schools that are located in the rural areas do not necessarily have access to the same resources and experiences for children that are located in the suburban and urban areas. Another one of the challenges that are seriously facing rural schools, is the inability to hire and retain qualified teachers.