Experience is the source of knowledge whether they're bad or good. It gives us confidence, courage, and strength. It is how life teaches us to love and forgive each other. In fact, experience is the worst teacher because it gives us the test before presenting the lesson.…
If the world said we cannot try to be what we want what is the point in living and trying if we already know what our life will look like for example when you are born it tells you when and how you will die, all your diseases, the percent of depression, and what kind of person you will be over all. This would create such a bad life style for some if they knew they would die at the age of 32 what would the point of getting a real job if by the time you get to the age when your job becomes real you will soon die. So kids will drop out of school or maybe even never…
People are broken creatures. We are invalid, corrupt, and imperfect. We start out on wobbly feet and frail bones, readily eager to take on the world, unafraid of anything and everything. Starting out in life, we are unsure, unafraid, and most of all, unaware. We are oblivious of the world at a young age and as we grow, we lose our innocence as well as ourselves. We are not born damaged, we are raised that way.…
One of the most influential Enlightenment philosophers John Locke concluded through a number of his essays that humans are born with a “blank slate”. That is, he or she is born free of perception and knowledge of the world and thereby builds his or her identity on the things he or she experiences. Within their selected passages, both Susan Faludi in her “The Naked Citadel” and Jean Twenge in her “An Army of One: Me” discuss the topic of self-formation and how education plays such a major role in that development. As it is commonly expressed, experience is the greatest teacher and our character formation relies on the people, places, and events that we interact with to ultimately shape our lives and who we become.…
we are taking, and the decisions we are making. I like how Socrates puts it “An unexamined life is life not…
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” (Kierkegaard). In the great debate of “Knowledge vs Experience”, each side of the story has its pros and cons when applied to the real world. Where knowledge allows its user to recall vast amounts of information about any learned subject, it fails to be able to apply that information quickly in the real world. Conversely, with experience, there is generally a lack of information from the get-go, however the lessons learned from actually experiencing a situation can be applied to further real life situations, and so forth. If I had to choose between living with solely knowledge or experience, personally I would have to pick experience over knowledge, due to its ability to have its lessons applied to later situations in the real world.…
This tables explains the different types of transitions both expected and unexpected from birth to 19 years old and how they affect the development or behaviour and having a positive relationship can effect them.…
At times I feel as though I'm trying and failing to be a human being. But what makes us human? I feel although I'm a human-shaped shell made out of pieces of things I find interesting. Instead of a real identity. Just layers of things that I hope will make me different from others. But am I? We rely so much on the opinion of others. But why? Why do we crave acceptance of others? If people were to look closely, they'd notice there really isn't anything there.Just a mess of a person trying to find their ‘place in the world. All we want is to be remembered. Just to prove we are something , we where something. How will I be remembered? Or will I fade into oblivion? Is this the meaning of life? To spend it hoping we have some significance in this…
When growing up we learn different things to help us throughout our lives. I think I did not understand what my ethic background was until I was about seven or eight. That is when I started to learn…
“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process” (Sai Baba). Just as Baba, who was an Indian guru, spiritual figure, mystic, philanthropist and educator, said; a person is shaped by different experiences. Some of these experiences are learned from school, some are learned from others, and some are learned by people’s past. People learned others experiences, gender rule; knowledge; and morality, during their growing. Later on, people kept learning experiences and teaching other people their experiences until they die; their…
Sometimes some us will mature at an early age through trying circumstances, suck as poverty and loss of life among friends and…
Infants develop in a certain process as they age. The process of infant development is rather fascinating. Infants start out as being really dependent on the parents, to becoming independent. I didn't have an infant to observe so I did some research. Infants develop physically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially within three months to a year.…
Deep inside every single one of us is a younger, a more youthful self. Although it seems as if we’re completely different people as we grow, that isn’t the case. We are simply a more mature version of our old self shaped by our previous life experiences.…
The purpose of this is to present a basis from which I derive my current philosophy which I use for students who are in the same positon now when I was their age. For example, I remember that everything was great with the world until I was thrown into the United States educational system. My parents, being immigrants from Mexico, were obviously Spanish speakers and provided us things, such as entertainment and music that was in Spanish. Every event that we attended, such as church and family gatherings, everyone spoke Spanish. All that I knew was in Spanish and that was ok.…
Matthew Arnold uses many literary techniques to make Dover Beach such a prominent and well-known poem. By rhetorical schemes, tropes, and imagery, Arnold demonstrates a theme that can connote many different ideas. However by analyzing this poem, I interpreted Dover Beach to be about Christianity.…