"Ashley's World" blog 2

“Hey class I want you to write a fifteen page paper on Beauty, on how you see Beauty, on how you think it affects us in a literal sense compared to what some people might think is Beautiful to them and then make sure that you identify the human characteristic that possesses…” blah blah blah ! Who seriously wants to hear all that rambling going on and on and on about fifteen pages GET OUT! Not everybody is too happy about that...well except for that kid bouncing up and down in his seat…Oh My Goodness. Does Education contain any ounce of Happiness that could make an individual constantly crave it? In “Happiness and Education” Tal Ben-Shahar discusses the difference between a Lovemaking model in which a person basically has no qualms about writing thousands of pages for class and always enjoys new ways to enhance their education, and a Drowning model which is someone who feels as if the pressure is always on them and actually attempting to submit themselves to the work is not always accurate. Maybe some people love absorbing the pleasure of learning new things and hands on creativity, but for me it’s a little different because I just can’t wait to get home crack open that good old workbook and fall asleep (Warning-drooling may be possible).

Tal Ben-Shahar talked about how his brother loved to study Psychology at Harvard and how he spent his free time reading, writing, brainstorming, all that good stuff, but in the end his brother didn’t like it as a student. Maybe his brother felt as if he was put under pressure to study even harder about the subject he loves and felt as if there is no happiness in having to constantly research it and write pages on it, etc.  Maybe Shahar’s brother loved the fact that he can easily do what he has to in class in his own atmosphere, in his own time when he feels better about studying and gathering information about it. Students tend to go toward the bad side in education where they feel as if it’s a waste of their free time and there’s no fun in what’s being taught. Even if the class is fun in the end when you go home and is asked how your day was you’ll probably say it was boring...walk in your room and mope.

I know that one of my favorite subjects is English and I can’t stop reading if my life depending on it. After coming home from school I literally walk into my house start up my PC and read stories on it all day or I just write about what's on my mind. When it comes to going to class for English I can’t stand it because I don’t enjoy it as much unless the teacher makes it fun. I can call myself a drowning model because I don’t like to do work unless it benefits me in my own time…in "Ashley’s World". I think that Shahar’s brother was a drowning model because he loved to study up on Psychology all the time, in his time. He disliked it as a student but loved it as a way of entertaining himself when he’s alone or sharing his views with people who’ll listen. I’ve had teachers who made English very enjoyable and others who made me want to set my ears on fire so I won’t have to listen to what they say, but when the time comes for me to go home and all that educational work for class has been done and put away…Ashley time is on and it doesn’t stop.

I had a little Lovemaking thing going on when I was in science class, and before you get all scared and hightail it, I was talking about the subject. I Love…Love…Love…absolutely Love Science. I don’t care if it’s in my spare time or in school I’ll listen to anybody who’s willing to share some views about anything related to science. It’s my dream to be a science major but my problem is that I just don’t know what part I want to major in. Science is really my Educational Happiness because I can’t live in a world without it which is impossible because the world wouldn’t be here without it. I don’t feel pressured into the subject and if anybody asked me a question about science I won’t put up a fuss in answering them. I see now that Tel Ben-Shahar is right and there is some Happiness in Education… you just have to be willing to find it in yourself.