Modulo 3 Essay2

Susan Carr November 3, 2009 Where I want to go and why Education is more than just teaching curriculum. It is about enriching the lives of many people and helping people to the best of one’s ability. “If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them (Ever After)?” This quote has been one of my favorites ever since I watched the movie Ever After. That quote says so much in just a few lines. I believe that is the first founding point of being an educator. That is to provide education far beyond what is solely in the text. The school is a structured way that the youth learn how to walk, talk, and act in society. The children that have problems with this or who simply “cannot help themselves” are more so the students I want to work with. A major issue I have that I hope to change is the word cannot. To tell somebody they cannot do something is so striking and hurting. "Disability is natural. We must stop believing that disabilities keep a person from doing something. Because that's not true . . . Having a disability doesn't stop me from doing anything (Benjamin Snow)." I want to influence and encourage students who believe they cannot do something. I want to give students a chance to have self gratitude and love. "I want to prove that handicapped people are not dumb or stupid, like some people think we are (Willis Radabaugh)." I want to start more programs that help better the lives of people that behavioral science would deal with. I want to be more hands on with the fundamentals of life and how to help people be functioning members in society. I want to work with those children who did not start life off at a fair race; “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength (Arnold Schwarzenegger Roshan Hoover and Greg Sutton).”