I absolutely value my ‘nonacademic’ education because it teaches what school can’t always such as morals, religion and the ability to take care for ourselves in the real world. Our ‘nonacademic’ education comes from friends, family, and everyday life experiences. These lessons and experiences are important in shaping our personalities and affect how we make our decisions. It makes me who I am and also affects my academic performance as well. Depending on what career we choose as adults, some of the stuff we spent years studying won’t actually be applied. However, the manners that our parents taught us and our fundamental values will be more important. In the future I plan to pursue a career in the medical field, and it will be important for me to know how to communicate with my patients and fellow doctors. Without the skills learned from my academic education I would be able to perform these duties.
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I agree with what you said. When I first looked at nonacademic experiences, I thought of like field trips or J-term or other things relating to school. When I think about it, I do learn a lot of things about just life in general from moments with family and friends. I think that these moments allow us to grow as a person. Great Blog!
I agree with your assessment of the importance of education outside the classroom. Your point about how people will teach themselves what they will need to know and the schools will often teach people things tat they will not need to know. You have a good point with your example of you pursuit of a career in medicine.
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