Learning ways and experiences

Throughout life we are all exposed to many different people, teachers, and ways of learning. The life that I have lived and the experiences I have had though learning have been very much influential  of the person I am now. Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." I think this quote sums up every thought that every student I have ever met feels and thinks. To many times we go to school all day just to be talked at by our teachers and just sit dormant, ideally by, listening but not retaining. This was my life all the way through Elementary and Middle school. But in high school, when I knew that education actually mattered, I decided to change things. Every teacher I would get, the plan was to sit down with them before the first day of class and explain the them that I can't learn by just being talked at all of the time, I need, and I believe that everyone else needs some sore of interaction, some involvement! Once that plan had been conceived in my head I decided that was the only way, so I put it into motion. I excited my plan to perfection, with every teacher I had and it worked exactly how I wanted to to. I was learning and retaining all of the knowledge that they expected me to know, even more, I was enjoying it! Honestly, when I think about education I think that we are being just shoved a lot of random information to train our brains to make decisions and find important information in the nothingness that is todays media. That is a skill though, and a very important one. If we can learn by the time we are adults to sift through all the crap and find important information that need to be retained we can find success.

This picture spoke to me because I love what it is communicating and trying to represent. Learning should be this way, prom person to person. People talking about experiences and things they have learned from them. Talking about what they believe are the best and worst things in life, about what should be changed or reformed, about how our political system works, about the demographics of the world. People should want to learn from real life, not solely what is in books.