Assignment of the Week

In honor of the many papers I am seem to find myself writing, each week I'm going to post a personal favorite (and also got a good grade on)

This one is from my education class:

To continue to discern between schooling and education, please answer the following question. What do you think has been the most important thing you learned in school, and what has been the most important thing you have learned outside of school?

Upon graduating from high school, I did not have not much self esteem left. I had gone to school each day to learn intellectual subjects and walked away with an education in my social status among my peers. Looking back, that was my entire education. While I know I was taught other things, I did not learn them. I do not place blame on anyone but myself, but in talking to many other former classmates, many of them also have the same feelings towards those years. They were hard years and we were hard on each other! I have often thought that I spent the first half of my life in school learning how to be an adult and a contributing member of society and the second half of my life out of school trying to undo all that I learned, heal my inner child, and ironically, still have no idea what my role in society is. What I have learned outside of school is that my entire life is a learning process and that sometimes the things I learn can’t be graded or passed off. It’s a process where I am trying to become the best person I can be while learning to understand the world around me.