The Potter and the Clay by Alyson

The Potter and the Clay by Alyson - December 2014 Scholarship Essay

If you were to ask me four years ago how education would help me to develop into a productive member of society, I honestly couldn't have given you an answer. I knew education was important; I just didn't grasp the breadth of its influential abilities. When we are younger we tend to miss the benefits of the present by yearning for the future. This is the exact situation I landed myself in when I was in grade school and as a theme I've carried through the brief years I've experienced on this earth.

Looking back, education was not something that was at the forefront of my mind during my adolescent years. I wish I had realized that education was the very thing making me the potter and my life the clay that I could mold any which way I desired to venture toward. However I will credit education for a multitude of things that have made me who I am, one major thing being solidifying my beliefs as a Christian and the field of science is to be thanked for that. When examining science in depth it only reaffirmed to me that the complexity of the earth, its intertwined water systems, and delicate eco systems could only come about by a creator. No other explanation is logical, and as indicated by the Latin term , lex parsimoniae, or Occam's Razor a problem solving method devised by William of Ockham, the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is the correct one.

Education not only taught me academically, but also in life experiences itself. Focusing on the task at hand wasn't always my strong suit and this was the case when I was assigned a taxing study on children's literature that tried my patience everyday as I fought to focus on the benefits of the study. In the end it taught me the truth behind the words "the creative adult is the child that survived". These words will forever be burned into my mind, as I go about life trying to not only see negative in the world, but really see the beauty in everything just as a small child would.

If it wasn't for my education and my loved ones pushing me to apply myself and to vanquish those feelings that education was not a top priority I wouldn't have undergone the raw exposing of my good and bad qualities that enabled me to discern what aspects of my character needed fine tuning. It at times was an emotional awakening, but one I am glad to have completed.

Now here I sit, devising an essay to further my education. To continue to allow it to benefit me like I never thought it would. My education left me unsatisfied with what I had accomplished. It sparked within me a desire to achieve greater things, not only benefiting myself but the community as well, as I strive to create for myself a place in the medical field in which my interpersonal skills will be greatly utilized. I owe my drive to help others, my thirst for gaining a career in which I love and for my knowledge of whom I am as a person within society, to education. I look to further my education so as to open more doors for myself and to have that second chance at molding my life in the way I want it to go, and I credit it all to education.