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Personal Narrative: My Personal Educational Philosophy
I once had a crazy college professor who made us write a paper and put music to it. I wrote about how my wife was like my new kitchen trash can and played chords on my piano to enhance the words I spoke. My teacher liked it. I liked doing it. And, I think my wife still likes me after doing it too. The assignment, in both the way it was given and how I went about doing it, reflects two ways that embody my personal educational philosophy.
The first way was in the assignment itself. The professor instructed us to write about something we enjoyed or that gave us pleasure. I thought this sounded easy enough, but then he asked us to use music to match the feelings we were trying to convey through our writing. I hesitated at that. No professor had

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