To understand why I feel all students deserve to learn, I must provide my own definition of “students” and “learning.” For me, students are far more than charges entrusted to me for a few hours a day. To me, students are the future. And though this is a cliche often spoke by teachers, to understand my need to teach, I must explain what this means to me, personally. I want to teach because one day every one of the children in my class will be adults. These children will be customer service representatives, and business professionals, brain surgeons and fry cooks; literally everything that is accomplished by “adults” today will be completed by “children” thirty years from now. The loud obnoxious student in the back of the class building paper airplanes will too be part of the society we inhabit.
These are not just children; they are pre-adults in need of preparation for the real world. Therefore I believe it is imperative that all children be given the opportunity to sit in a classroom, to be challenged and then changed, by the information provided to them. How we train them today will affect our future as much as theirs because without them we have no future.
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My fellow literarian, John Dewey says it best “Learning is preparation for life itself”. Learning is not so much about the memorization of the periodic table, as it is the realization that the elements being learned can be used to make a silly putty that is twice as bouncy than the average silly putty, or even to cure cancer. Learning is not about the memorization of the pythagorean theorem, it’s the understanding that boundaries can be limitless. Learning is not a number to be calculated, it’s an attitude that says I can use what I know to make a difference therefore I need to know more. Learning is not about and end goal it’s about creating goals that have no