Ideal for Your Future by Demarco

Ideal for Your Future by Demarco - October 2014 Scholarship Essay

From the beginning of life, a child is born a student. No matter what it interacts with or examines, it would still learn from it by simply keeping it into memory and adapting to the environment. However, a child is not born with a teacher. The teacher has to choose to take time out and teach what they already know and with it encourage the student to learn more. A parent could teach a child the basics of life and could inspire the child to go to school, but would the school inspire the child to stay in school and learn more to succeed in their education and academics? Like a baby who can learn to walk just by watching his parents walk and command him to get on his feet and move like them, a student needs to see as soon as they walk in the classroom a few educational and inspirational posters on the walls that encourage them to learn. Therefore, with those posters, a student needs a formally dressed person standing up at the doorway to greet them everyday and welcome them into the room of where they learn. They also need a teacher with personality as well; a teacher who seems loose but somewhat strict. Someone who can act as though they've come from same the valley and culture the student has, but has progressed in education from that level.

If a student can enter a room with walls covered with posters that tell them to keep learning, they would get the feeling that not only a living person is trying to entice them to learn, but the whole room is trying to get them to learn. Then, it would strike the student's mind that even with no one in the room that's human like them to tell them so, they are still pressured to stay in school and proceed in their academics by what surrounds them in the environment. Therefore, the urge to learn will not leave them because they have adapted to a type of environment that suggested it.

When a person sees another person within the same city or street they're in, they perceive that the person must know what they know about the world and can relate to and trust each other with information of whatever happens within that community or the outside world. If a student can go to school and meet their teacher and the teacher dresses and talks like he's/she's educated but acts like they come from the same street at the same time, the student would trust and want to hear everything that teacher has to say to them. The student, who has made friends who live within the community he lives in because he can relate with them about the community's living conditions, can see in their teacher another person who lived that same life with them in that community yet can teach about how the world works. Therefore, the student can trust them with whatever the teacher has to teach, just as they had trust within their parents to teach them things.