Blog Prompt: What did you study in school, or what was a favorite subject? Did you receive your education somewhere other than school?
I have always loved school and couldn't get enough of it. As soon as I was able to, I even took summer enrichment courses while others took remedial classes. I just loved to learn and still do. I still love to take courses but I don't have enough time. I hope once I retire, I can take all those courses I never had time to take.
A lot of my education though occurred through experience. All of that book learning is very different from real life. Through teaching, I think my students have taught me about real life as much as I have taught them about book learning. When I graduated from college, I had these fantasies about changing the world. I had a black and white view of how things should be. Now after teaching for 25 years, I have to laugh about how naive I was back then. The world is not in black and white. There are many times it is in many colors. Many times there is no right or wrong answer. I have learned that having an open mind and being flexible is much more important than being right. If I only knew then what I know now...
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Oh you are so right Pat! Firstly, how much teaching others actually teaches us about ourselves. I am so grateful for what I've learnt, in another job I wouldn't have had to learn those sometimes hard lessons about myself. And secondly, about being flexible and being able to go with the flow is definitely very important. I was so much more about controlling things when I first started out too. Now, I know you can't change the world and maybe not even one person by trying to... perhaps only by inspiring them and being a good model, which I know you would be to your students Pat!! Great post :)
Boy, am I with you! Scary to think how naive we can be!
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