Blog Post 2

Blog 2:

Learning brings a plethora of things to mind, both good and bad. From the moment we are born, we begin to learn. We learn to move, smile, walk, and talk. Before kindergarten, our parents try to teach us to read, color, and use manners, among many other things. As we grow older, however, some of us begin to feel as though learning is forced upon us. We would rather be outside riding bikes, home baking a pie, curled up on a rainy day reading a book, or any number of things. Then a miracle happens, and we suddenly are struck by a certain topic in school, and cannot wait to learn more. It changes the entire perception of learning, for, what once felt like a chore in math class now reels us in towards new concepts in carpentry class. Suddenly it doesn’t feel like learning, it feels like fun.

                                                               

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The above pictures represent two entirely different learning scenarios. In the first picture the students appear less than enthusiastic, none of them smiling or looking eager. In the second picture, however, their curiosity and intrigue are apparent on their faces. To me, these pictures show the difference between classes we are forced into by requirements and the classes that pertain to our areas of interest. We struggle to motivate ourselves in our base-requirement classes, letting ourselves get bogged down in the negativity of it. Once we get to our classes that relate to what we hope to spend the rest of our lives doing, suddenly our energy spikes and our attention hones in on what we are eager to, dare I say, learn, that day. Although learning may represent a plethora of undesirable images to us, we all have those few instances where learning is in fact a true pleasure. Discovering our own particular ways of coping through the required classes will eventually lead to the exciting, major-specific classes that will leave us thirsting to learn more each day.