Author: Obed Pen-Ogbolu (Page 8 of 11)

There weren’t many things I was interested in as a kid, or at least not much that I can remember. The only thing I could say I was interested in was how to become a doctor. In my early stages of school, my siblings told me becoming a doctor would mean I would succeed, and of course my parents wanted me to be successful when I grew up so becoming a doctor was one of the first things that came to mind. Becoming a doctor was my dream for a good chunk of my elementary school life. I’m not interested in it anymore, but back then I was super enthusiastic about it. My hype slowly died down though as I learned about the long proccess of Medical School. I wasn’t as enthusiastic when family and teachers would tell me about it, but it’s not like I was going to let that discourage me. I was going to keep it up and try and become a doctor anyway, well until I was in the third grade.

My third grade school year really hit home the idea that “school sucks” for me. As I came to dislike school, I also came to dislike the idea of going to what I called “Doctor School.” Medical School sounded like more work to me, so I wanted to avoid that. Soon enough, becoming a doctor just felt like something my parents wanted for me. But the thing that officially ended my curiosity was a fifth grade Graphics Design class I had. That was my first introduction to the Technology Field. I then had 3 years after that of coding classes mixed with my middle school curiculum and becoming a doctor became a thing of the past. My interest in the Medical Field completely died and my interest in the Tech Field took over. Unlike my interest in medicine, my interest in coding was completely my own. It was something I discovered for myself and something I fell in love with myself. Maybe that’s why my curiosity for it is way stronger than my curiosity for medicine.

• “Children, full of questions about things that interest them, are learning not to ask them at school.”(Paragraph 2) I am not really a talkative person so I can kind of relate to this. Even when I know and answer or have a question in class, I don’t ask. Now whether school is the reason, I’m not really sure. But this statement is one that many kids can relate to.
• “Children are born curious. The number of questions a toddler can ask can seem infinite – it is one of the critical methods humans adopt to learn.”(Paragraph 8) We were talking about this in class earlier, but curiosity seems to be a human nature. There is almost never a time when we aren’t curious, even as adults. So when we are children with a lot to learn, we are, in a way, nothing but curious.
• “What children love is to copy what adults are doing with objects. What people and objects do makes them curious about their world.”(Paragraph 17) Copying is probably one of the most basic ways to learn. It’s how we learn how to talk, how to move, and many more things. I don’t really think of it as being curious about the world thought. I feel like when a child copies an adult, it is just them trying to adjust to there surroundings. Of course that isn’t all cases, but I believe that it is most of them.