Official Start Time: 10:40 p.m.
Date: 6/24/09
Official End Time: 11:00 p.m.
In the last couple of days, I’ve been doing some serious thinking about school and why we feel that it is important to go to school.
I started to think about elementary school and how elementary school represented a very interesting time in a child’s educational experience. During elementary school, there are tons of kids and more twice the number of available schools. In my city, there are only about 3-5 high schools, while there are maybe 5-8 elementary schools.
At this age, school is your only outlet as it provides with the foundation you’ll need for higher levels of education and understanding. Here you learn how to read, write, calculate, and reason to a certain degree. After you graduate elementary school you enter a bigger pool where you are no longer centralized by a single teacher and your opportunities begin to grow.
During this period, I feel students define themselves and the kind of people they want to be in the future. We won’t always be students. Some of us will go on to be teachers, lawyers, doctors, and professors. These are moments where we take into reality that we are getting older and we less chances to go the wrongs we have already made.
Finally, high school in my opinion is where you are given four years to establish the future you want for yourself. In those four years, it is up to you to network with the right people, take the right courses, and venture into new fields that you know will prepare you for the future that lays ahead. In my opinion there is no formula for success in high school; there is only purpose.
Oh to often, I feel students in my accelerated program feel that it is either Yale or bust. That men and women of simpler walks of life are ignorant of education and what it means to work hard. I hear stand as firm believer of education and self-improvement to say that it is not a battle of schooling but rather resilience. It really doesn’t matter if you’re a teacher or a doctor. It matters more the impact you are able to make.
There are tons of great teachers out there that I feel aren’t given enough credit. And there are tons of great doctors our there that I feel aren’t given enough credit. What I’m trying to say is that like pieces of drift wood in a giant lake, we must first stick our hands into the water if we wish to define our destinies and the lives we wish to pursue: whether doctor or teacher, lawyer or artist.
Sincerely, Hector Guzman
Date: 6/24/09
Official End Time: 11:00 p.m.
In the last couple of days, I’ve been doing some serious thinking about school and why we feel that it is important to go to school.
I started to think about elementary school and how elementary school represented a very interesting time in a child’s educational experience. During elementary school, there are tons of kids and more twice the number of available schools. In my city, there are only about 3-5 high schools, while there are maybe 5-8 elementary schools.
At this age, school is your only outlet as it provides with the foundation you’ll need for higher levels of education and understanding. Here you learn how to read, write, calculate, and reason to a certain degree. After you graduate elementary school you enter a bigger pool where you are no longer centralized by a single teacher and your opportunities begin to grow.
During this period, I feel students define themselves and the kind of people they want to be in the future. We won’t always be students. Some of us will go on to be teachers, lawyers, doctors, and professors. These are moments where we take into reality that we are getting older and we less chances to go the wrongs we have already made.
Finally, high school in my opinion is where you are given four years to establish the future you want for yourself. In those four years, it is up to you to network with the right people, take the right courses, and venture into new fields that you know will prepare you for the future that lays ahead. In my opinion there is no formula for success in high school; there is only purpose.
Oh to often, I feel students in my accelerated program feel that it is either Yale or bust. That men and women of simpler walks of life are ignorant of education and what it means to work hard. I hear stand as firm believer of education and self-improvement to say that it is not a battle of schooling but rather resilience. It really doesn’t matter if you’re a teacher or a doctor. It matters more the impact you are able to make.
There are tons of great teachers out there that I feel aren’t given enough credit. And there are tons of great doctors our there that I feel aren’t given enough credit. What I’m trying to say is that like pieces of drift wood in a giant lake, we must first stick our hands into the water if we wish to define our destinies and the lives we wish to pursue: whether doctor or teacher, lawyer or artist.
Sincerely, Hector Guzman
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