Weaving Edu Tapestry

  Credit: https://scholarsenglish.id/sistem-writing-corner-april-by-scholars-official/ The most significant experience I ever had took place when I first attended the essay class in my college. It is unforgettable as it changed my view of writing. After introducing some aspects of essays, the lecturer assigned us to write about respecting parents. I was extremely confused about the assignment because I think respecting parents is something taken for granted. It is something to implement, not to talk about. What is more, I was used to disliking writing as it requires a complicated process and should be based on various conventions. However, through all the activities in the essay class, I found various interesting aspects and advantages in writing, and they totally turned my aversion to fondness. I entered college intending to earn a degree in English education. I love to be an English teacher as it will provide me the opportunities to create relationships and community not onl...

Eager to know their real reading practice, I recently conducted an informal conversation focusing on what, how much, and how long they read per week with three students on my campus. Here are their responses. When asked about their view of the essence of reading, they unanimously agreed that reading is not only important but also crucial in learning. For them, the essence of reading for mastering the course content, enlarging knowledge, building vocabulary, promoting thinking skills, and improving writing skills cannot be replaced by other skills or tools. When asked what and how much they read, and how long it takes to read it, the first student, majoring in Biology education, stated that she regularly read textbooks and articles assigned by her lecturers. ‘Now I’m taking 5 classes, and each class necessitates me to read at a chapter of the textbook. Sometimes additional texts like articles and lab reports are added. I estimate I read 110 pages per week, and I need about 2 hou...

College education has long been the most common way of making one educated and shaping a better life. But many college graduates today cannot thrive in life because they were merely schooling, not learning while going to college. Going through social distancing due to COVID 19 for about a month, I found reading very effective to help me manage stay-at-home recommendations. Being not so obliged to interact as intensively as I used to with the outside world, I have greater opportunity to read new books and articles online or reread dusty books that have been kept on the shelf. Some books I found interesting were the biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Thomas Alfa Edison, Sri Pudjiastuti, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. One of the reasons is that they teach me three similar interesting facts concerning education. First of all, these six great figures either attended very little formal school or did not graduate from college.  Lincoln attended formal school only for about...