Students are their own best teachers Essays - Teaching, Educators

Students are their own best teachers Essays - Teaching, Educators Chase Payne Payne 1 English 1000 27 Sept, 2015 Students are their own best teachers. Agree or disagree? In my opinion I do believe that students are their own best teachers. No matter if it's cooking kraft dinner or driving a standard vehicle, sure somebody can show you how to do it but its ultimately up to yourself to practice and develop those skills. In the very beginning of human life when there was no society like today or industrialization just men and women adapting to their surroundings, how do you think the first fire got started? There wasnt a manual or internet to look up and see how it was done, men/women had to go through trial and error until they figured out how to make a fire. Obviously todays society is very different from those days but the fact that students have to learn for themselves isnt. Yes a teacher can show you a million different things a million different times, but if the student doesnt take this knowledge and apply themselves then how will they ever learn anything? For example say a student was in a math class and the teacher was showing the class how to add, just simple addition like 1+1 or 3+3. Then the student gets assigned homework and doesn't do it, then comes back to class the next day and there is a quiz on what was suppose to be done for homework and fails because he didnt practice even though the teacher showed him how to do it. Students are their own best teachers can apply to more things than just the school or university settings, it can apply to almost anything in life that could require teachings. Only the student knows their own ability, in saying this no matter how many teachings the student has it is Payne 2 up to the student to put in the work and get the job done. A teacher is never a giver of truth he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself this is a quote from Bruce Lee an iconic martial arts teacher, who has had his share of students. Students are their own best teachers in the way that they learn from their own experiences. If you do something over and over again and keep getting the same results then after awhile you will realize that there is something that needs to be changed. An example of this is if you were in a kitchen and your mother or father was using the stove and you decide it would be a smart idea to touch the stove. Soon after touching the stove you are suddenly overtaken with pain, from this experience you know that next time somebody is using the stove you will keep your hands far away. There is no way to teach everything, some things you learn from experience and what you do with this knowledge is up to yourself. There are things in life that you dont get taught and you just have to live and learn. That's why its important to understand yourself and your experiences because no teacher can help you with these things. Only you can know what's good for you, whats bad for you, and what you like and dislike. Experiences can help you in school as well, for example if you dont study for a test and you fail then obviously next time there is a test you will study and prepare yourself so that you dont have to meet that fate again. Learning from experiences and mistakes in my opinion are the best ways to learn because you have lived it so its going to shape you. Which way it shapes you is entirely up to the choices you make and no teacher can help you with that. Lastly students are their own best teachers because of the fact that the student is the only one that knows what theyre capable of. In saying this what I mean is you know your own Payne 3 methods for the things you do better than anybody else does. People can tell you a number of different ways to do things, but its up to yourself to choose the one that best fits you. Again i'm not saying that having a teacher isnt beneficial because it most certainly is, but for example in a class with a textbook you dont need a teacher there. You can