Student+Philosophers

 =On Learning From Your Mistakes =


 If people never make mistakes in life, then they won’t learn anything. If people make mistakes, they can learn from them and become smarter. Many people have found success by making mistakes and what was thought to be silly, is actually intelligent.

= On Changing Yourself Before You Change the World  = = =  People think that they should change the world to make it a better place, but the truth is that they should change themselves. The world is made up of people and we are the ones who have to change in order to change the world. If you want to stop global warming and pollution, you have to change what **//you//** do. Everyone thinks of making the world a better place but fails to think of making themselves a better person. =  On Gossip and Secrets…  = = = <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> If you tell a secret to someone you don’t fully trust, it could spread and be posted on websites and something like that can be really hard to take back. =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> On Kindness… = =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> = <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> If someone is mean to you, being mean back to them won’t help. If you show kindness to them, though, they might realize their errors and fix them. =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> On Hopes and Dreams… = =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> = <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> If you don’t believe you can become what you want to become, you won’t be able to fly and achieve what you want to accomplish. =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> On Teachers Who Love Learning… = =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> = <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> Sometimes teachers should take students out to places they themselves have never been, so both the students and the teacher learn something new. The teachers need to have the ability to take students to a new place. A good teacher is able to discover new things and teach them to students. A good teacher should teach more from experience than from textbooks. An educator has to explore new things. Even though their job is to teach, they don’t know everything. No one knows everything. People learn new things every day. Students learn new things in school and teachers learn new things so they can teach them to their students. =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> On Understanding the World When You’re Alone… = =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> = <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> When you’re alone, you start thinking of things you’ve never thought of before. Soon you start thinking of the world and how it works. You start understanding the world when you’re alone. When you’re alone you see things you normally don’t realize when you’re with friends. When you’re alone you have the time to think about what is around you. When you’re with someone, you’re sharing a world with each other with things you like. When you’re alone, you see the world itself. When you’re alone you stop thinking about anything else in your life and you look around and you are more focused. You notice every little bit of detail around you. The world feels like it has stopped turning and you look around and see it for what it really is.

=<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> On the Differences between Maps and Places = =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> = <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> Maps show where places are but they don’t tell you what it is like to live there and they don’t have a feeling. When a person looks at a map the person has no information about how the place is. When we actually go to a place, we will think, feel and see things that don’t fit on a map. Truly special places are not on maps. They are more in the heart than in the head. After all, who has mapped the heart?

=<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> On Leaving Places = =<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> = <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> People come and go and they almost always meet people who will remember them. Whether people die or just leave a place, they leave behind memories for the people they left.