The Picture Behind The Story :: essays research papers

     The motivation in an individual is of great concern in becoming an well-educated person. I know that from my fathers "childhood" stories that self-motivation and motivation from relatives are what help individuals to learn and prosper in their lives. My father didnt have any of this when he was younger. His motivation and energy were enjoin in another resultion, the path to " I Dont Care Land". I believe that he still had in his heart somewhere the curiosity and the open-mindedness of a child like ambition. My father left home when he was sixteen, he had to get himself together just to survive out in the world. If my father hadnt complete that he had to shape-up and get thing together he would have never gotten where he is today. When that childlike ambition broke threw my father he knew what he had to do, with this Im proud to say my father went back to get his GED to further is education. As the great Hellen Keller once said " Charact er cannot be developed in salvage and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." You have to pull yourself out of the gutter and come about on going as any well knowledgeable person would know.Next is the ability too direst and assist the learning bear on. Before the invention of narration and writing, people lived in an environment in which they struggled to survive against natural forces, animals, and other humans. Through direct, informal education, parents, elders, and priests taught children the skills and roles they would need as adults. In doing this they taught an ability to be direct and to assist in the process of a better knowledgeable person. Education developed from the human struggle for survival and enlightenment. It may be formal or informal. Informal education refers to the general social process by which human beings acquire the knowledge and skills needed to function in thei r culture. Formal education refers to the process by which teachers instruct students in courses of study within institutions. I know also, through my fathers stories, that even thought you are learning at school the ruff way to be an well-