Personal Essay on How Education has Me Well Prepared
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A personal essay on how education has prepared me well for life.
Jonathan screamed in terror and the whole class jumped up in curiosity. Panic began to spread over all our little five year old faces."There's a man at the window!" Jonathan yelled! Mrs Johnston, our primary one teacher, ran over to the window and quickly closed the blinds at which the strange man was standing. She told us to sit down at our tables and calm down. The whole class were whispering excitedly to each other. We were all confused and scared at the same time. Mrs Johnston called us over to the story corner and she read a book about strangers. The relevance was to the man at the window. We learned not to be frightened, but also to be very careful and wary of strangers. We learnt trust and how you can't trust everyone who approaches you; these are important lessons for life.
Primary one is a year in which I think most youngsters will learn a lot of emotions, and learn a lot of values. I learnt a lot in primary one, not just how to say the alphabet, but physical emotions and how to treat others. I learnt to share with my friends and think about what you say to people before you say it.
On the first day of primary school it became apparent who the quiet kids were and who the bullies were an also who the leaders were. The class bully was a boy called Jonathan Ramsay. He stole our play pieces and was cheeky to Mrs Johnston. All the kids would stay away from him, hoping not to be his next victim. I learnt not to trust him but to stay away from him. I also learnt to respect others who respected me and to be polite to visitors in the school and to teachers, especially the head master. I learnt the relationships between friends because I had a best friend and we were always together. The teacher named us "The terrible twins." This taught me to be kind to your friends and look out for your friends when they need you.
By primary seven we were all grown up and a lot more independent and responsible. As the oldest kids in the school we were given the "grown up" jobs, like monitoring the infant's playground and helping them out in the dinner hall. We also had to make sure there was no bullying going on and if there was we had to put a little slip into the bullies' box then the bullies would be dealt with by the headmaster. Everyone was scared of the headmaster apart from Jonathan Ramsay, he wasn't scared of anyone. Primary seven taught me how to be responsible and to look out for the younger more vulnerable kids. One time when the teacher choose the school monitors she left me out and all my friends got to be monitors, this made me quite sad because I didn't know who I was going to sit and eat lunch with that week. I ended up speaking to one of the quieter kids who no one really took any notice of, including me, until that week. I made a new friend and I felt really bad that I and my mates had never taken any notice of her before. It made me think that if I was worried about having to eat lunch on my own for just one week imagine how she felt because she had been eating lunch on her own for 3 years since she moved to our school. This taught me to be nice to everyone and try and get on with everyone because everyone is equal. She was probably just shy because she hardly knew anyone.
Primary School taught me a lot of basic things, but Secondary School has taught me even more.
On my first day at high school, I was very nervous and anxious. I wondered why I'd heard loads of stories about bullies and how they are mean to first years because the school didn't seem like that at all. I learnt to behave in a different way from primary. Primary was more chatty but secondary was more strict. I didn't like having to wear a tie everyday because I wasn't used to it in primary. The strangest thing was all the new faces and from coming from primary seven where your class is the oldest and most responsible in the school to going to secondary where you are the youngest year and least responsible out of the school.
Like primary though, it became apparent after the first few days who the outgoing and loud characters were and who the quiet and shy people were. I made new friends but still kept some of my old good friends from primary.
Secondary school has made me independent and prepared me for most of lives obstacles. School has taught me physical emotions as well as Maths, English etc.
To conclude, I think without School it would be a lot harder for children to grow up and learn properly. School plays a massive part in the development of youngsters and teaches life's lessons. It teaches the good things about life as well as some unfortunate things.
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