It’s Part of Life

Not many have the privilege to be educated in the world, but everyone knows the meaning of being educated, and often describe education as intelligence and base of knowledge. Reaching high school, graduating, applying to a college and getting accepted takes a lot of hard work and focus in your classes and extra-curriculars. Reaching college and being accepted means that you are going to enter a different level of education where there are a variety of college classes awaiting for you and a variety of students wanting to discuss real-life topics that could pertain to your views in life.

Being exposed to ideas that could make teenagers, especially high school and college level students feel uncomfortable can be beneficial to the student. Learning and being exposed to ideas that have sense to them, such as school shootings, rape, religion and certain topics that make others want to argue or even make them want to walk out of a lesson is exactly what education should be. In my English class we were exposed to the “Sandyhook Promise Back To School” commercial, to say that it was disturbing would be an understatement. After the commercial the whole class had gotten pretty silent and was just taking in what they had been exposed to, although this could have triggered some people this is the type of education that a school needs, because we are people in the real life world and we need to be exposed to these triggering factors early in to learn.

Education needs to handle real-life problems and to speak about them, professors need to educate their students by placing and exposing them in a situation that could make them uncomfortable. The teenager will be exposed to these certain ideas eventually, but will be more beneficial to them being exposed to triggering, uncomfortable situations at an early stage of life due to the fact that a professor can educate the student to look at the situation in different perspectives and provide them with different solutions. Education should be meant to prepare you for the outside world which is why disturbing conversations and lessons such as the World War II are necessary for us to grow as not just students but as human beings.