Thursday, January 29, 2009

*Favorite Song?

To tell you the true I don’t really have a favorite song. I like many song’s but not just one! Although I think I focus more on the lyrics than any other thing. I mean, I’m not into the rhythm or the artist I just like what the message is all about. There is a song that I have in mind at the moment. For example, I’m not who I use to be, I think that’s the name. Well any way I like this song because it gives a testimony of a life of a young man that change thru time. The style of living and the things that he did is just a memory for him. I feel connected to this song because I feel I have change in a way. Moreover if I haven’t really change I know that throughout the time there will be changes in my life that maybe I’m not going to like or maybe I will, but the whole point is that I’m never going to be what I was yesterday or what I’m going to be tomorrow.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Essay #1

The Goals of Education

Ever since I was a child, my parents have always motivated me to be a successful student at school. The early grades of school are critical for all students. For me, my parents taught me how to have the desire to reach a goal, an education goal, which would help me in my life and would help others as well. Throughout the years I have learned that all of us have the right to go to school and to prepare for a better tomorrow. Many of us have the opportunity to achieve certain dreams and desires, but not all of can get to the end of this process. All human beings can create a beautiful picture in their mind of what they want to become one day if they go to school and graduate. In my personal opinion everything can be possible if you aim in the same direction always. The goals of education should be accessible to all students, challenging but possible to accomplish, and rewarding.
I have read articles that explain how the educational system is full of goals. For example, a teacher can have the goal of developing a good presentation for a class. The goals of education have to be accessible to all children starting with their pre-school and going all the way thru high school. The first couple years we rely on the parents of the child to get him/her to school and help the child to finish their school year. No matter what your financial situation is as a parent, or the personal circumstance you are in, the responsibility of having your children accomplishing their basic learning skills will fall on you and will make a huge difference when they finish their elementary school. I remember that my mother would always wake me up early in the morning and would say to me, “Up, up, time to go to school and learn something new.” And she was right; there would be no day that I wouldn’t bring home with me a new word or knowledge of something I had had no idea about. It is very important to get started on your education at the age you are required. There are public schools as well as private. There should be no reason to stop going to school.
There are countries where going to school is an issue because there is no access to it. Transportation or lack of instructors is the need of society in rural areas. The consequence of this may not be big at the beginning of their life, but after they grow older the situation changes. Having access to education might become an obstacle to have education goals. I consider and this problem should be resolve for a better life of others. Everybody should have the access of education and have the resources to be able to assist their first years of preparation at school.
In my personal aspect all goals have a challenge with them. Moreover everything in life is a challenge. Having the capacity and courage to overcome those challenges in education is within us. I understand that maybe at the beginning of our education everything seems smooth and easy, but when you start another level of education, it is then when your difficult times come. When you start to struggle with some subjects or projects that seem very challenging to your goals of education also come to a turning point of failure sometimes. I can assure that any goal of education includes some bad experiences and maybe sour moments that you wish you didn’t have. Even though it doesn’t mean that you should give up or not continue toward your goals, sometimes we have to learn from our mistakes, which is something I have learned in my personal experience of my goals of education. Coming to college has been very challenging for me. For example, the first couple semesters were the scariest for me. Maybe the reason for this was because I did my high school in another country and my first language is not English. However, with all those challenges I did not stop thinking of coming to school. I think that it doesn’t matter how big the challenge is. What matters the most is how you are going to solve or demolish the challenges.
Having a goal in your education will help you get further in your learning process. Going to elementary school for six years is very important for your next couple of years in school. Those first years of knowledge are like the base of the pyramid, on which the future depends. When you continue on and your next step is middle school, you get more desires in you heart; you get an idea of how beneficial school is and how well you will live if you try to reach a higher goal of education. There is a recompense that you gain throughout the years of your learning process. There is no doubt that the more you go to school, the more you can tell that there is a big value in acquiring all the experience. The things that help you reach goals may not be the best of all, but the days you spend dreaming of all the goals you want to reach one day makes the difference in you to continuing or to giving up with “all this school stuff”.
I am a very positive person and I try my best to accomplish all those good thoughts that I have when I’m at school because I know that there is much more than just learning in being a smart person. We all have goals in education, I’m sure. I know that they are all different and maybe opposite if we compare them, but in my personal point of view, there should be access, challenges and rewards as the goals of education.