Lessons taught in school are beneficial, yes, but what about the ones we learn outside of school? I have come to learn that they are just as important as the ones learned in school. There have been times when I had to use the skills that I learned OUTSIDE of school to accomplish a goal rather than ones I learned INSIDE school.
\nOne time in particular, a basic experience I must admit, was when I fell off my bike as I was learning how to ride it. I was about eight and I desperately wanted to ride a bicycle. All of the little kids on my road were riding theirs and I was stuck inside my house watching them. It killed me! So I asked my mother to strap me up and I told her I would teach myself. She was so shocked, she asked me over and over if I was sure I wanted to try something so dangerous on my own. I couldn\u2019t be seen getting babied by my mother, that would have been so \u201clame.\u201d I was determined to do it on my own.
\nSo I go out there, my eight year old heart set on making it down the road and back without any type of slip-up. That plan failed. I barely made it past my mailbox. I didn\u2019t realize what happened until afterwards. I sat on the ground, wide-eyed and embarrassed. None of my friends had fallen but here I am on the ground. I wanted to cry. I felt the lump in my throat, the stinging behind my eyes\u2026but I couldn\u2019t cry. Not there. I had to get up. I looked up and my mother was standing there, fussing over me and trying to help me up. I remember saying, \u201cNo mama, I got it. I can do it.\u201d She let me try.
\nI didn\u2019t get it that day. I don\u2019t think I learned how to fully ride a bike until the next year.
\nThe skill I learned that day was to pick myself up. Having someone to depend on can be an enormous help but I learned that I have to do things on my own. I have to learn. In different types of situations, individuals will HAVE to pick themselves up. This is a lesson that I\u2019ll be able to take into every day life.<\/p>\n
Lessons taught in school are beneficial, yes, but what about the ones we learn outside of school? I have come to learn that they are just as important as the ones learned in school. There have been times when I had to use the skills that I learned OUTSIDE of school to accomplish a goal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4118,4111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-october-2017","category-scholarship-essay-submissions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}