Most children shy away
from asking questions in
class, and when you don’t
understand something,
and are not forthright with
it; you tend to lose the
enthusiasm to learn.
leaves growing at the bottom!
ver engaging facts and figures in books, but asking
the right questions and not putting too much pres-
sure on yourself is also crucial. A geography class
experiment which to some in my class was tedious
was engaging for me. I asked my teacher all sorts
of questions—how could cotton swab substitute as
soil for the bean, how do the roots take hold, and
how was the fact that you could grow a plant in a jar
discovered? Be curious, and don’t be afraid to ask a
silly question. My teachers always told me that there
was no such thing as a senseless question, which is
why we go to school - to learn.
I had made this classroom experiment work for me. I
was interested in farming and here I was, learning the
basics of growing anything. How amazing it was to
see these beautiful leaves falling out of the jar when it
was just a bean not even two weeks ago. This set in
motion my interest to keep planting seeds, and lear-
ning more about the earth. As I grew older I unders-
tood why my sixth-grade teacher taught us about the
earth’s core. It not only affected the shifting of land,
but also produced heat from the inside, and the is-
sue of global warming from the outside was creating
havoc on the once fertile planet earth. I was learning Most children shy away from asking questions in
about population growth, resource allocation, climate class, and when they don’t understand something,
issues, and proper water usa ge for vegetation.
and are not forthright with it they tend to lose the en-
thusiasm to learn.
Finding something you’re ardent about is what wor-
ked for me, and I feel that it is the key to making The subjects in school might seem boring now, but
uninteresting topics appealing. You can always disco- more often than not, I find myself remembering the
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