Are You an Aspirant to a Student?
Each student has a definite way of conducting his education. Everyone studies for a definite reason in order to achieve different goals. There is always a personal purpose under the act of studying. However, I cannot model the behavior and characteristics of the ideal student. As an experiment, it would be interesting to record a video of a class in order to see how the students behave in their own ways. There would be an student who would never stop taking notes. Another who would participate a lot. Probably, one of them would be sleeping. Or maybe, there would be a group of students working on a different course. But the academic life does not end in class; it continues at home with the family or playing sports with friends. Each student has his own background. Therefore, we are not going to find two same students. As a matter of fact, not only are students those ones who attend to class and follow the teacher‘s instructions. What if some people are not able to receive a regular education? This does not mean that they are not students. Since I consider that education is the process through which human beings get to know themselves and get to know other people in order to grow up and achieve happiness, we have to take into account all of the different ways to accomplish this task. There is not an universal educational method; nobody is able to say that he or she is more educated than the others. Education does not exist to be judged. It exists to be human.
Therefore, by real education, we are willing to know more about ourselves. For this reason, the only and effective way to accomplish this mission is by developing a sufficient rational thinking. We can read novels everyday, study by memory the complete American Constitution or learn how to do every single problem from the chemical engineering book, and still have a poor education. Richard Rodriguez defined the scholarship boy as a ``great mimic, collector of thoughts,...