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 didn't have any of this when he was
younger. His motivation and energy were directed in another direction, the path
to " I Don't 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 hadn't realized 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 I'm proud to
say my father went back to get his GED to further is education. As the great
Hellen Keller once said " Character cannot be developed in ease 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
keep on going as any well knowledgeable person would know.
Next is the
ability too direst and assist the learning process. Before the invention of
reading 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 their
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 best way to
be an well-educated person (in my opinion) is that you learn by informal
education. As Anatole France once said" an education isn't how much you have
committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate
between what you know and what you don't." I agree with is because and great
person and differentiate the know and unknown and have never been in school but
still have an informal education that is just as good as a formal but not quit
in-depth.