LOVE OF LEARNING = VISION OF THE FUTURE (Short Essay)

Watch the following interviews and write a brief essay describing how the love of learning can inspire a vision of the future.

We can be educated in anything that "strikes our fancy," but we cannot, in a sense, be forced to comprehend or love to learn about something that does not interest us. Forced learning creates a sort of prison environment, something children must be put through, an activity that all children/teens want to escape from. Learning the basics at school, while including a subject that is loved by a child will aid in removing this thought of imprisonment. If people are learning what they want they will obviously want to keep learning, they will find a substantial reason to keep at it. Learning is not something meant strictly for children, it is not something that is meant to cease once a graduation occurs, learning is or should be life long. Focusing on something one loves to learn about creates and inspires a better worked future. The fact that people are learning about what they love, what they have an interest in, will insure that things are well-learned, or actually learned, and will improve all aspects of life.

Essentially, for this better future that Isaac Asimov has envisioned, we need to get past receiving an education to receive a job to receive a "pretty good" wage. It is an endless cycle of forced learning and unhappiness. We must all envision a love for learning, we must expect the younger generations to experience a love for a subject, and to pursue that love. We must evoke a passion from all those currently in education systems. Passion, or the love, for knowledge will create a better future. If everyone is passionate about one, two, three, a couple subjects, they will learn those subjects extremely well. The passion they maintain for the subject will be their drive to keep learning more. We must create a world in which success is defined by the action of intense acquisition of learning on a subject that one is enamored with. The love of learning must define "success."

I have a passion for helping people, but the idea of diseases, viruses, bacteria, etc. and how they spread throughout the body, how they manage to cause so much destruction, also interests me. For this reason I want to be a nurse. I want to learn more about things such as how different strands of a disease or infection are created, about mass prevention/infection, about the symptoms of dieses/viruses and more importantly, how to help people get better. This is my passion, and although it includes getting a degree, I will be successful once I am helping others with their health.