The Hierarchy Of Passion: Education by Nasya

The Hierarchy Of Passion: Education by Nasya - July 2022 Scholarship Essay

Dear future me...

Has the passion our education system so desperately needs in this moment;has it been restored? I am writing this as a sixteen year old in my junior year of high school, in hopes that in ten years, at the ripe age of twenty-six I will be able to confidently say that our schooling system has reimbursed the passion that our teachers and students are in dire need of. As I look around my noise dead classroom, I can not help but pray that the education system us students and our uninterested teachers are a part of finds a new light.
My fellow peers and I can both agree to the fact that the learning mindset of education has severely declined and is very rare to sight in this day. Us students need, we crave, for passion to be poured into us from not only our parents, but our teachers as well. Without this downpour, unfortunately a lot of us have lost our strive, our desire, our will to succeed in this educational hierarchy we have to climb. I know you (as a twenty-six year old) are probably aware of this by now, but when someone as a person constantly puts out energy or a substance as such without being replenished or breathed in to, one eventually runs out of substance to give! I am afraid that this exact circumstance is occurring and will never get better. Dear future me... has it gotten better?
While I am young, I do pride myself in understanding that you can give only what you have or have received. I believe this is an important topic when considering the current state of how little are education providers are given from those that outrank them in this educational hierarchy. For teachers to feed their approximate one hundred plus students a day, they too need passion and patience to be bestowed upon them from their higher ups... Yet and still, they have received nothing! When you look around a classroom you expect for your fellow peers to be lacking in push, passion, and energy. But not only do I find these attributes to be lacking in my acquaintances, but my dear teachers as well. If the very people that are inspiring our passion, our future, do not have their own passion and happiness, where does that leave this generation of students as well as the next? Dear future me... how are the new generation of students holding up?
In conclusion, I hope to see the passion, the fun, and the love be restored in the schooling system in the next ten years. The future of America counts on not only the new students of the world, but the teachers who are up to the task of teaching the new students of the world. I pray that in the next ten years school becomes a place of comfort and achievement instead of its current state of dread and lacking. We the students, need to see change occur immensely. Dear future me... did it ever change?