In Praise Of The F Word By Mary Sherry

Education VS. Life

While growing up we learn so many lessons that it is almost hard to remember all the information we learn. We were constantly learning something wherever we went. At school we learned our ABC’s, how to write our name, how to read basic text, and how to count to ten. Outside of school, we learned how to ride our bikes, and how to behave the proper way. We learned quickly what it feels like to succeed and what it feels like to fail inside and outside the classroom. The comparison to in school and out of school lessons poses the question, where do we actually learn more? For me it’s easy to say I learned more outside of the classroom. Being an A student, the lessons I learned throughout early elementary school came easy …show more content…
It 's almost like they seem to get more intense with more lessons we have to learn. School gets harder and life gets harder. When we start high school we learn that it is a whole new chapter of life. We learn quickly to stay up on our homework and that friends do not last a lifetime. When the time comes and your few short years as a highschooler come to an end you began to wonder if the things you learned in school were more important than the lessons you learned along the way. In the short essay “In Praise Of the F Word” by Mary Sherry we learn that her son learns a tough life lesson throughout his senior year by a teacher who wanted to see him succeed. His mother Sherry also being a teacher had a hard time understand this teacher 's way of teaching. They both had totally different ideas on how to run a classroom. Her sons teacher was more uptight to where Sherry kind of let the class do the thinking and talking for the day. Sherry makes her kids write the things they learned throughout school and most of them come up with nothing, they talk about the things learned outside of the classroom based on the things that happened to them while they were in school. The author …show more content…
These students are all reflecting back on the years and all they can think of is the impacts the lessons outside the classroom have had on them. The situation in this essay is something that is really easy for me to relate to. As a freshman in college and having just graduated High school, I look back to reflect on my highschool years. I realize the lesson plans my teacher had made for us had no effect on my life compared to the life lessons I learned along the way. High school can be an unpleasant time for many people. I was one of the few who really enjoyed high school. I made friends easily, I was apart of the high school softball team, and I went to every football, basketball, and baseball game all four years. The hard part of high school was learning who your friends truly are. I had six really good friends in high school that I was always with. Today I have 1, just one that I talk to everyday out of all six of them. All my other friends made choices that I did not agree with so we all parted our ways. I wish it wouldn’t have ended up that way but I believe it turned out this way for a good reason. The lesson was just another one I learned outside of the classroom that had a major effect on the way I have turned out in