DAY 69 – IMAGINE WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE TO BE A PERSON WHO CONTRIBUTES TO HIS OR HER EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE BY

I am a third grade teacher. It is spring and my class is outside playing. The sun is shining brightly so I go back inside to get my sunglasses. When I come back out I start to think about how wearing sunglasses to block out the sun may be similar to students who do not try to do their best in school by blocking out what teachers are trying to get them to understand.

Human life is about learning. Everything we do we have to learn. No one becomes better at something without spending time learning as much as he or she can about that subject. The less a person knows the less prolific a person will be about any aspect of life. When a student does not do his or her best while in school it is tantamount to saying I don’t care if I am less informed.

There is little incentive to expand one’s horizons when a person wants to stay the same and have the same life as he or she has had in the past and still has today. If you want a new job that is different than the one you have and it requires a new skill set that you do not have then you have to learn something new. If you want a harmonious relationship without arguments or disappointments and you presently do not have that then you have to learn something new that will bring it about. If you want to live in peace with people who belong to a different nationality, religion, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation and you presently are at odds with people belonging to a different group than you belong to then you have to learn what will bring about better relationships with them. If you want to live on a clean and sustainable planet and the earth has environmental problems then you have to learn how you can personally contribute to it functioning without those environmental problems.

So many children do not realize that they will have aspects to their future that they do not not want to have. Most of the chaotic moments and longer duration turmoil that any individual has to deal with during the course of his or her life could be prevented with insightful knowledge about how to create a personally better life. Most of the societal difficulties that exist also could be prevented with insightful knowledge about how to create a better world for all of humanity.

As my class and I are walking back into school and I take off my sunglasses I now realize that to fully see and understand life better we need to take off our sunglasses that blocks out the knowledge that can make each of our lives better and a world with fewer societal difficulties.