I Can Be a Thinker and a Learner on the University Level

I can be a Thinker and a Learner

On the University Level

Cindy Walker

Foundations of English 108

Brother Michael Hales

I can be a Thinker and a Learner on the University Level

With the correct training, my college education will outline the skills I need to be successful both before and after I receive my diploma.

Elementary school has its advantages. While patiently listening to children read and watch them write, I have learned to be a better thinker and reader. I decided last year, I would return to the university scene and add a bachelor’s degree to by resume. In the next 2 years, can these questions be answered? Will I be able to think and learn on a university level? How will I keep my day job and university studies straight in my mind? My biggest fear, will my simple elementary school sentence structure show through in my university work?

An educated person is more interesting to be around (Butler 1976 p.16). The people I work with at school are very interesting, but because I am less educated formally, am I less interesting? Associating with elementary school teachers, is a bit humbling for me, an associate degree holding tutor. My education is through my experiences of years as life skills. Experience feeds into the education of a soul. Eliot Butler states: “An educated person is keenly aware of his expanding conscious of ignorance” (Butler 1976 p.8). I envy those who can write and speak beautifully.

I look forward to the guidance of university teachers to help me practice and discipline myself into becoming a better reader and writer. Learning is hard work and not really very fun, but the feeling of accomplishment is worth it. Learning is active and more than just gaining the university experience and naming names. Learning is the challenge to gain intellect and maintain the capacity to comprehend (Butler 1976 p.3).

Attending BYU-I, has given me the confidence not to follow the first treatment against the...