“Teaching is the profession that teaches all other professions” (author unknown). I found this saying a few years ago while fulfilling my uncanny passion for quotes. At that point, I had no idea what I wanted to do once I graduated high school. Now diving further into my senior year, it is that very same quote that inspires me to pursue a career in education.
As my senior year continues to keep rolling along (although sometimes very slowly), I am extremely excited for the future that lies ahead of me. Four years at a university that I have fallen in love with. A career inspiring students and encouraging them to be their absolute best at all times. Passion filled years spent teaching the generations to come. All of that makes up what is contained in my future plans.
I will be attending Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and will be majoring in Elementary Education. I will learn how to become the most effective and the best possible teacher that I can be. Spending time in the classroom, as well as in college classes will consume a majority of those four years. At A&M I will also be a member of the Women’s Water Polo team, where I will continue to develop the team and leadership skills required to be an excellent teacher. I will graduate as the loudest and proudest member of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 2015 with a degree in Elementary Education. From there I will begin my career.
I want to teach kindergarten in a school where I will have the opportunity to make a child’s first encounter with education a positive one. It is in kindergarten where a child either falls in love with learning, or “falls through the cracks” as children’s book author Carolyn Sollman puts it in her book Through the Cracks. I will be that teacher whose students leave kindergarten and move onto first grade having a passion for learning, those students who will then be the next President, the ones to find the cure for AIDS, the ones to end World Hunger and bring about World Peace. The students who will know that they can do and become anything that they set their minds to. I will be that teacher who graduating seniors looking back on their past thirteen years of schooling will think about and say “it was that kindergarten teacher who started it all”. I will be that teacher.
When thinking about careers, there are easily thousands to choose from. My peers will choose to become a lawyer, an engineer, a doctor, a sports medicine trainer or a business man or woman. Some will choose to go into the armed forces and serve our country. One or two may decide to run for a future presidential election. Those thousands of possible careers are all so different, but share a common thread. Every person in those careers has at once had an education. “Teaching is the profession that teaches all professions” (author unknown) and I firmly believe in that. Without teachers, none of these other careers would be remotely possible. Therefore, I will be the teacher to educate the future generations, so that they can follow in my peers’ footsteps to become the next greatest lawyers, engineers, and doctors. Teaching is my passion and holds the key to my future and my dreams.
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That's fabulous, Ky!
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