In a world like ours, education may be the only key for a better future. Most of us have not acknowledged the fact that this may be the only way to success, but that may be because everyone has had a transformative educational impact. We will come upon this academic transformation whether we are an infant, adolescent, or a young adult. However, rather than me having to face this on a specific age group, I am still currently experiencing this educational transformation. I have been impelled by these educational experiences from my youth till my current days, learning new things in and out of my academic institution. Whether the lessons I come upon being positive or negative, there will always be an educational meaning behind anything that happens.
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He explains how his educational transformative experience still molds him in his career today and how he experiences the world. I personally have not encountered this type of experience in my institution, but education surrounds us all around. Unlike Frank Bruni, novelist James Baldwin sees education in a different perspective, he says: “The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own …show more content…
Examining what occurs in today 's society and learning from it, whether it has a positive or negative impact. To see from what perspective you may view things from, what angle you perceive these views. To grow and to make customizations for your own life, so you won 't rely on your parent or guardian to make those decisions for you, to become your own person. I can relate to James Baldwin 's perspective on education because it 's not only what books have taught us, but it 's also what life has taught us. I 've learned to strive for what I want to accomplish in life and to not let anyone or anything bring my hopes down. Instead to become encouraged by those false words and strive for oneself. Become what they never thought you would
He explains how his educational transformative experience still molds him in his career today and how he experiences the world. I personally have not encountered this type of experience in my institution, but education surrounds us all around. Unlike Frank Bruni, novelist James Baldwin sees education in a different perspective, he says: “The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own …show more content…
Examining what occurs in today 's society and learning from it, whether it has a positive or negative impact. To see from what perspective you may view things from, what angle you perceive these views. To grow and to make customizations for your own life, so you won 't rely on your parent or guardian to make those decisions for you, to become your own person. I can relate to James Baldwin 's perspective on education because it 's not only what books have taught us, but it 's also what life has taught us. I 've learned to strive for what I want to accomplish in life and to not let anyone or anything bring my hopes down. Instead to become encouraged by those false words and strive for oneself. Become what they never thought you would