Susan Carr

November 3, 2009
Where I want to go and why
Education is more than just teaching curriculum. It is about enriching the lives of
many people and helping people to the best of one’s ability. “If you suffer your people to
be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those
crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but
that you first make thieves and then punish them (Ever After)?” This quote has been one
of my favorites ever since I watched the movie Ever After. That quote says so much in
just a few lines. I believe that is the first founding point of being an educator. That is to
provide education far beyond what is solely in the text. The school is a structured way
that the youth learn how to walk, talk, and act in society. The children that have problems
with this or who simply “cannot help themselves” are more so the students I want to work
with.
A major issue I have that I hope to change is the word cannot. To tell somebody
they cannot do something is so striking and hurting. "Disability is natural. We must stop
believing that disabilities keep a person from doing something. Because that's not true . . .
Having a disability doesn't stop me from doing anything (Benjamin Snow)." I want to
influence and encourage students who believe they cannot do something. I want to give
students a chance to have self gratitude and love. "I want to prove that handicapped
people are not dumb or stupid, like some people think we are (Willis Radabaugh)." I want
to start more programs that help better the lives of people that behavioral science would
deal with. I want to be more hands on with the fundamentals of life and how to help
people be functioning members in society. I want to work with those children who did
not start life off at a fair race; “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles
develop your strength. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that
is strength (Arnold Schwarzenegger Roshan Hoover and Greg Sutton).”