Three central things would basically be: 1) being able to be with someone that I care about and love; 2) having a stable financial situation; and, 3) doing something that I like to do.
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[I think we have schools] to correctly function in society and to learn to become a better citizen.
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I think the most important thing I'm learning [in school] right now is that what you want to do in your life could be hard, but if you really put your mind to it, if you just try and put a lot of effort into it, you can probably do it one day.
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I think schools should teach critical thought and a conscious awareness of what's going on in society... it should teach how to think politically and to assess information in an unbiased way.
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School is to prepare us for our dream careers, I guess. Maybe not our dreams careers but just careers in general - whether it's math and you want to go and engineering. Or if you want to become a history teacher or historian. It doesn't help everybody but it helps most of us.
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A good life is: 1) to have a house with a good amount of bedrooms; 2) to finish high school and go to college and study construction or to study about cars; 3) to have a good job that can help me afford what I want.
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A good life would be calm and relaxed - not having to stress about anything, just have it be a good easy life. Then, a good family, and a good job, and an easy death.
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Part of a good life is a sense of accomplishment when you are older. Having the feeling and knowing that you've really gone somewhere - you've really contributed to society. That you've left your lasting mark on the world and you've just really done something special.
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I was doing a lot of writing and poetry and Mrs. McGovern just encouraged me. She was like "you're a really good writer" and she just kept encouraging me to write. Nobody had ever said that to me before - and nobody said that to me after that either - when I was in school. I felt like for the first time a teacher saw me for who I was rather than just a kid in a in a chair.
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A good life would probably be to be settled and happy with where I am, and happy with what I'm doing.
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I hope when my daughter is grown up that she has a job she really enjoys that she feels confident in. I hope that she has meaningful relationships in her life. I hope that she has lots of time beyond work to live a fulfilled life and pursue some of her other passions besides what she's going to do for work. I hope she feels that life is happy and that she's healthy and positive.
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A good life is being successful - holding a job, having a house, and a dog; any kind of dog.
I think we have school for multiple reasons. I do think it's so our general public is educated - so make sure people learn stuff. But then I also think it's also because parents that need to work can't be caring for their children at all times, so it is a form of child care.
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The rules that have been created as a result of this system stifle innovation and we within education perpetuate it because we have a hard time seeing an alternate reality...
We have to give the people who are in education the opportunity to innovate to solve those problems, and to use data to ensure that they're solving them well.
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What I want is for kids to be ready to adapt and embrace whatever happens. To be able to respond to it thoughtfully - with kindness and compassion for themselves and others. And to be collaboratively figuring out: "How are we going to work together to make this planet, this world, this nation a better place...?"
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If you are a child who was born into poverty in this country, the likelihood that you will be able to escape poverty is not high. And that goes against every ideal that we have as a country, and it makes me mad - it is the fire in my belly that just pisses me off every day, that we have children who have so much potential and so much to offer the world, and they are not able to live up to that potential because they're not able to attend high-quality schools.
"Schools have a big role in preparing students to embrace change and differences, to have an open mind, and also build a love of learning without feeling insecure - low self-esteem for learning what they want to learn, for experiencing or exploring what they want to explore."
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"Going back to the idea of tailoring education: different people have different motivations. There’s no one-size-fits-all education method that maximize every person’s potential. Thats why its important for administrators to design school towards this goal and it's important for teachers to recognize such differences and tailor their curriculum."
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"For upcoming freshmen, or students in general, not to worry too much about your grades. Try your best to get the best grade you can and do all your homework, but at the end of the day if you get like a B, it’s not the end of the world. Don’t get stressed out too much because you only go to high school for 4 years. You don’t have a lot of time."
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"I think what’s really important to get out of school is a love for learning. I honestly don’t think that school teaches you that and I think that it just teaches you a system where everyone participates to get a good grade, to get into a good college, and get to where ever they want to go in life without actually caring about the work they are doing."
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