Personal Statement For Becoming A UB Graduate Student

Personal Statement Becoming a UB graduate student is one more life goal that I have achieved, but a master degree cannot satisfy my eager for knowledge. My goal is to become a doctoral student then ultimately become a scholar who is able to contribute the progress of human being. I was born in a working-class family, my father was the victim of China 's reform and opening up, I witnessed a half-feudal society on its half way to modernization, conducted its primitive accumulation under the banner of advanced, democratic and just socialism during my childhood. I feel deeply aggrieved about the reality, there was a fantasy in my heart: if I am an emperor, how would I make my world and people better. The discontent of the reality is the

Mr. Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy enlightened my deep thinking about truth. Then I read Mr. Rousseau 's of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right, and became a believer of social contract theory; I also self-studied some of Weber’s, Marx’s and Durkheim’s sociology thoughts, but the two-year preparation for Master study put an abeyance on my reading plan. Regarding to the educational philosophy, I self-studied the thoughts as ancient as Quintilian’s and Comenius’s, and as modern as Horace Mann’s, Dewey’s and Dr. Weis’ educational thoughts. Moreover, my teaching and administrating experience in both private for-profit education organization and in public schools in China plus the study of the real-life problems and contemporary researches in UB, generate a deep feeling that education studies should become an independent, open and scientific field of study. Furthermore, during my master study, I encountered numerous materials about social injustice, cultural prejudice, racial discrimination and political corruption which are all jeopardizing education practices, but most of our debates in the classroom were difficult to generate constructive suggestion. It is always good to have different opinions, but our discussions rely too heavily on individual’s life experience and it is no doubt that when the empiricism prevails, science dims. This observation motivates me to explore the education studies in a more scientific way. I hope my future effort will enable people to discuss and solve education problems on a scientific track, so that the education system in human society will be the secure for educating the “ideal human