Personal Essay On Education Is The Key To Education

Education. Education is a student learning how to calculate the velocity of a ball falling from the top of a building. Education is a student learning about how certain literature affected movements in different periods of time. Education is a student learning that on a galactic scale we, as humans, are extremely small and insignificant. Education is a student learning about the culture of another area and coming to understand it. Education is learning and understanding. Education is teaching students to think. Learning is the key to education, which sounds obvious but upon closer inspection, really is the key to a good education. It is one thing to go to class and from there know what a concept is. But, it’s entirely different to learn. Learning

A teacher must discover their role in every classroom. Are they a lecturer, imparting their knowledge and expertise on a subject onto new minds? Or are they a fellow learner, learning alongside their students and discovering new ideas? Teachers must also find a balance of professional and personal. Some teachers make the mistake of getting too close to students, thus being taken advantage of as the “cool teacher” which is a stigma of its own. But must a teacher completely detach themselves from their students? A teacher wants to be approachable, but be respected by their students and maintain a professional distance. Some of my favorite teachers I had were those who were serious about work, but later I would gossip with about other students and teachers. You want to be a teacher who works well with

Now, I do believe both have merit and that truly all of these have elements that are key to education, but these two are the least of those. Essentialism focuses too heavily on the idea of academic intelligence and leaves out creative intelligence. If a students is not good at art they are told it’s alright and not everyone is good at it, but when a student is bad a math they are told that they’re not smart. Which isn’t necessarily an essentialist view, but rather a byproduct of essentialism being the prominent form of education in our society. There’s also the extremely xenophobic side of essentialism that believes that immigration is causing an erasure of our culture. However I will agree with some points, such as having high standards for students and starting with the basics and working your way up to the more complex ideas. The last, Existentialism is the oddest concept and the hardest to implement. While it has its positives, like the idea of focusing on the self and not being distracted by the outside world. Have students really think about why they are here and making them use their creativity. However subjects like math and science take a backseat to the more creative oriented classes. I am a firm believer that you need a balance of academic and creative classes, maybe a bit of favorability for what students wish to pursue career