Educate Yourself

With all the different learning and teaching styles, the student does the educating. Some people direct and others instruct; some inspire, others dictate. But the student who learns is the one who will educate himself or herself.

Many students have heard of the self teaching concept before, but they don't experience it much in high school. Classes taught in a high school are designed to suit the lowest common denominator. While some students are built to excel, they have become programmed to learn the same thing in the same way as everybody else. However, with proper motivation, and some mentoring, almost any student can educate themselves to become leaders of the future. In college, many things are taught the same to every student, but much more is taught and learned in a specific field. As students select majors and decide on their career paths, they go off to learn what is needed for their future. But what can a student do if he or she hasn't decided on a future career? These students just need to decide to become great. There is a lot to be learned out there that can help anybody live a successful life, but the individual has to be responsible for the learning.

Education in the public school system has had many improvements throughout the centuries. Is a change needed to help students excel to their potentials? What can or should we do? What can government do? Ultimately, how will the students learn to love to learn?