Life 101

It should come as no surprise that, if I think life is for learning, I would view the process of life itself as a classroom. But it's not a dull, sit-in-neat-little-rows-and-listen-to-some-puffed-up-professor-drone- on-and-on classroom. Life is experiential. In that sense, life's more of a workshop.  I like to think the workshop/classroom of life is perfectly arranged so that we learn what we need to learn, when we need to learn it, just the way we need to learn it. The operative word in all that is need, not want. Life's lessons come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes what we need to know we learn in a formal way, such as taking a class or reading a book. Sometimes we learn by an informal, seemingly accidental process: an overheard comment in an elevator, a friend's offhand remark, or the line of a song from a passing radio. Therefore, I consider the range for class “life 101” is extremely big and bestowed teachers tremendous ways of teaching.

The first thing teacher needs to let student understand is what life is. This is a huge topic. Maybe even teachers  do not understand life either. But it’s necessary for students to understand the responsibility and importance of lives. In our society today, we have witnessed to many tragedies in school.  It seems endless for the increasing casualties in school. One reason for these accidents is that many teenagers underestimate the value of life. So teachers have the responsibility to grasp their students return back in the right track and let them understand how precious life be. In doing so, systemic method of teaching must be accepted. And the corporation between parents and teachers to defend bad influence to student is necessary also. Positive lessons are not always taught in positive ways. A flat tire (hardly a positive occurrence) can teach any number of lessons: acceptance, the value of planning, patience, the joy of service (if another person has the flat tire), the gratitude of being served (if another person helps you), and so on.  There are any number of lessons we can learn from any experience--both uplifting and "downpushing."