“What Do You, too, Believe?”
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”- Kurt Vonnegut
In the midst of reading first “The Careful Cultivation of Belief” by Sherri Medwin, and my personal favorite, “Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing” I realized that in education my main belief follows closely to the quote above. In the second belief essay, I read she mentioned how amazing anger can be but also how hollow that feeling is when it is pushed too far. As an up and coming teacher, I think lots of children feel this way about the whole education process. They get frustrated because the teachers are telling them what to do instead of asking them or allowing a love the share just themselves. The leave feeling hollow feeling the anger of not really feeling the love/ being able to show the love that they believe they have about education. Going through the education process myself and still going through it today, I realize that my main belief follows the application of love. A love shown through the teacher for what they are teaching, but also a way to let their students find something they love to share with the class as well. Rather than forcing the students to believe the same “standards” that the rest of the country is believing in. I think by adding that love we are taking away the anger and hollowness that I’m sure many students feel sitting in a classroom thinking “when will I ever use this”. By adding a love that, obviously, isn’t romantic but more of a general caring for one another in a classroom help shows the students that education can be anything they choose rather than beliefs that we, as teachers choose for them.
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