education

EDUCATRION

What education means to me is that you learn something new, not just in school, but in the world around you. In the essay The Hidden Teacher it says “We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories…Moreover, our teachers may be hidden, even the greatest teacher….” I fell that some of the best learning happens from experiences in our life, not from classrooms in a school.

An example of learning outside a classroom can be found in the essay, How I Discovered Words. In the essay, it talks about how Malcolm X learned all kinds of new words while he was in jail. It talks about how he used to copy words from a dictionary to a sheet of paper, and then he would learn all new words. Over time, after doing this, he got better penmanship and learned lots of new words. This is just one example of how people learn outside a classroom.

Another example of people learning outside a classroom can be found in the movie, Dead Poet Society. In the movie, a group of guys go out to an old Indian cave, and read different poetry. In one scene of the movie they are in the cave and they are reading poetry from Whitman. Also in the movie, one kid learns to find confidence in himself, and in the last scene he stands up on his desk in respect of the teacher who was let go. Also movies are a way to learn. For example, we learned watching this movie that people need to have control over their lives, and that other people can not make all the major choices in their life.

Also another way that people can learn from outside a classroom is from experiences in life. For example, people can learn through trial and error. One example of this can be found in when you are learning how to ride a bike for the first time. Another way to learn through life’s experiences is by dealing with the same experience more than once and learning from that experience by finding out what you did wrong. I feel that learning through life’s experiences is the best way to learn because, it is the easiest way to learn new things as long as we are open to them.


Another way of learning through life’s experiences is by just simply living; everyday you learn something new whether you know it or not. Everyday you get smarter and brighter by just simply living. I feel that everyone has their own ways of learning such as copy words down from a book or reading poetry in a cave at night no way of learning is wrong, that is what makes education so great. Overall, I feel that learning just comes to you and you do not just have to sit in a classroom to learn something new about the world that we live in.