Education Colors Your Whole Life…

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My Salt Water lesson Introduction to all my new students. Intrinsic or Instrumental. What kind of Education do you want? I am this kind of teacher. I teach both for intrinsic value and instrumental purposes. Intrinsic is where education makes you a better and cultured person. You develop personality and build character. Instrumental is where you learn the skills necessary for a trade or a professional job. This is qualifications you must have to survive and excel in the world. But how to teach that to a bunch of 11 years so that they can understand? By demonstrating off course. Our actions are our biggest assets for teaching. Adults teach by example. Parents are our first teachers. So with my two empty glasses, a container with salt and a sealed bottle of water and a small spoon, I entered the classroom to teach my first class of eager students. I pour the water into the glass until it is fill. I hold up the glass and we verify that the water was clear. Then for each row of ten students I pick a volunteer to dip their finger into the water and tell me how it tasted. My baffled students confirmed it tasted like water…no taste. Then I added a spoonful of salt and stirred properly. Now I again asked for volunteer to taste. Four students tasted off the top and confirm it was salty. I held up the glass for all to see…yes, it had not change color. It looked the same. I pour about half the water into the other glass and had the students tasted from the middle. Yes, still salty. I pour the water out until a few spoonful remain in the bottom…and had the students tasted this. Still salty, So what was the lesson? The clear water is us (students). The salt is Education you are about to received. When you received an Education you LOOKED the same…but you are not. You have undergone a subtle change. And the change took place EVERYWHERE. This is called an intrinsic education. Here is my question for discussion: Which education did you received in school? Did you become a better person, or did you only have a qualification to hold down a job? If you had to do it over, what would you have done differently? Were you happy with who you became? Or did the education system fail you? Quote taken from public domain on the internet.