Unit 1 Education & Identity DRAFT

Education is where one receives knowledge about our surroundings and allows us to achieve successful careers, however, my experience with education did not seem that way.  As a young student, I’ve always struggled and despised the subject of math. I was always placed in afterschool programs due to my low scores and had a hard time understanding problems. Soon my teachers would become frustrated furthermore angry with my lack of cooperation which led me to feel dispirited about learning.  With all these negative learning experiences I’ve had with my teachers, it would make me question why I was trying to excel in education when I’m not even sufficient at it. There was this one event I had with my teacher which prompted me to feel discouraged yet want to improve in my weakness.  After taking in all the harsh statements said to me, I decided on sharpening my learning skills by studying every day and teaching myself all the topics in the course. Although it was a lot of hard work, in the end, it paid off to earning good grades.  This can reveal how experiences with education will always be a way of overcoming difficult obstacles to obtain the desired goal.