In my nineteen years of existence, education plays a vital role in my life. Schooling for me since then is full of fun. It was making me learn to read, write, spell words and express myself. I got the opportunity to read books in English and History, solve problems in mathematics and enjoy the physical activities in education. I owe my success in life and school to my teachers who taught me to be respectful and responsible. For those who argue that school’s usefulness is shallow and deeper-real-life experiences truly educate a person are partially right; however, school should be seen not only a place to study but as a place to learn about real life. People cannot depend on experiences alone nor solely rely the information in the school books. It must go hand-in-hand to prepare us for real life situations.
School’s mission is to nurture the student’s character for them to have better future. The longer a student involved in school, the more possibility that he/she will be successful someday. A school imparts values to the students. Respect is one of the values learn in school. I grew up respecting my elders, whether it was my grandparents, parents or my teacher. I have always had respect on them. I have developed my respect for teachers because I will need their help to survive and make it through the school everyday. During my elementary years, I remembered bowing my head to greet every teacher I encounter in the lobby. It was my way of showing respect to the teachers who taught me as a respectful student. Although being respectful is not found in the pages of textbooks, learning lessons about respect is very helpful. I experienced during second year high school that I had a teacher who was so strict and inconsiderate. It was the time my respect was being challenged. My Mathematics teacher was one of the cruel people I ever met. With my classmates, we cut class during her time but she caught us in the campus and scolded us. I hated going her class, half the time. But by the end of school year, I realized that she was one of the best teachers I ever met. She just wanted to give us more knowledge and understand the usefulness of geometry in life. Learning to put feelings aside and appreciate the teacher as an educator is much more important than having fun in every class.
Gradually, I learned that different situations in school called for different levels of respect. Sometimes I found myself get jealous of my friends who did better than me in the examination, even though I studied and tried my hardest in the exam but still I did badly. Instead of hating a classmate because she did better on an exam than I did, I learned to respect her ability. In grade five, I started joining athletics in our school. Sometimes I won in the competition, sometimes I failed. One time I was defeated in our game, I cried hard because of being a failure in our team. Accepting the fact that I would not always win in a game, I began to respect my effort as I do my best and respect the talent of those around me. Conversation with friends definitely requires respect, but discussion with a teacher requires more respect. The longer I was in school, the more I realized that I had learned to gain respect not only for teachers, but for my friends and myself. I learned to respect my teachers and friends as people who were trying to help me. Respect is not only applied in school, but it can be also applied in every single day you mingle another individual.
Since a person cannot get through life only with respect, schools also provide students with another lesson that can be applied in real life-responsibility. Responsibility is an instance of being responsible individual. I grew up as a responsible child by helping my parents in our household chores. I was also the right hand of my mother in times of doing tasks in our house. Furthermore, students have also chores in school, and if they are not done doing it they will be punish. I had experienced it in grade-four where we did not finish our cleaning task. Our teacher assigned us in gardening for one week with regards in our misbehavior. School becomes a much bigger responsibility because it has the potential to affect the student's life in and out of school. School acts not only as a way to create responsibility, but as a place for students to practice what they have learned. In grade-six, I became the leader in our cleaning team where we are responsible in cleaning the room and garden every Monday. I developed my leadership skills so that my teacher can trust me and see me as a good student. In fourth year high school, my teacher chose me to record the attendance in the class each morning. I started to notice that my teacher trusted me and I became the favorite one. I slowly began to understand the significance of responsibility and started to realize that I gained it.
My understanding of responsibility grew deeper as I went to school every day from elementary to high school. It was my responsibility to ride in a jeepney, make my assignments and do my school works in time. I was lucky to have teachers who trusted me and gave me encouragement to learn more in life. By the time I graduated in high school, I wanted responsibility. It means that I had enough confidence to be responsible on the works to be given to me. I owe my teachers a lot for getting me where I am today by helping me learn responsibility and respect.
Like respect, the responsibility I learned in school become very helpful in my journey in the outside world. Responsibility comes when you realize that there are many important decisions you had to be made. I do believed in the saying that, “what you will be tomorrow depends on the choices you make today.” If you are responsible enough to choose the right or wrong decisions in life, you might become a successful individual. One choice can produce lifelong consequences either good or bad. Responsibility is one of the major values that a person should learn not only in school but also in the community.
School is to teach information about history, physical and earth sciences, and how to add and divide. All these things help to get good grades in school, but will they really help me in the long run or are they as important as the lessons learned through experience? I think it is the goal of teachers and schools to prepare me with realistic information in facing with real-life situation like handling responsibility and gaining respect for authority. School has helped me understand some of the problems in life; when I fail a test that I studied eight hours for, it parallels me trying my hardest in running 1,500m but still loss in the game. School alone cannot prepare anyone for life, but neither experience alone can suffice. I would not be in college hoping to one day be a teacher if I had not studied hard in school and listened to the advice, criticism and praise of my teachers along the way.
School can sometimes be boring, I cannot fight with that, but school is the only way to develop our skills, attitudes, characters and values in life. Learning how to gain respect and keep responsibility paved the road of success in the future. According to Tom Bodett, “The difference between school and life; in school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.” By applying the lessons learned in school to real life situations, a person is more likely to succeed in life.
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