Applying education to real life

For this week's blog, I had no idea what to write about. I looked at other people's blogs to see what they did or how they came up with an idea. Then I got the idea to go to one of the websites that were given to us, like postsecret.com or threeminuteliterature. So I then went to postsecret to look for something that might "speak to me". I found one that did, and it's hard to explain why. Maybe it's because it mentions education in it and obviously I'm currently in high school. Or maybe it's a deeper meaning that I just don't understand. Unfortunately the image cannot be displayed, but I will tell you what it was. It was a picture of a postcard to postsecret that read: "The only thing I've learned from my Ive League education is how many things in my life are more important."

I like this postcard because while I do feel education is important, so is living life. Education will give you the tools you need to help you become successful in life, but in living life, you need to apply those tools and learn when it works and when it doesn't. Because if all you have is tools and no experience of when it works and when it fails, it won't matter.

While I was looking at this postcard, I was trying to figure out a way to apply it to what we've been doing in class for the last week. And what I came up with was this: our English class gives us the tools we need to be able to be not only successful readers, but also people who can analyze anything and find deeper, more complicated, and more sophisticated meanings to things. In class we use these new found tools to usually analyze books, but when we get out into the real world, we can use our analytical minds to find deeper meanings in anything. This way of thinking can dramatically help us in our own lives, if we do it right. But without trying and failing multiple times, we'll never know how to do so. Which brings me back to my main point and the reason why I chose this postcard. Education is very important, but without using what we've learned in real life, we'll never know how to use what we've been taught.