Reflection

For my educational autobiography, I chose to focus on an individual who has largely shaped my education and the person I am today, rather than an experience in my educational history. I think that I chose this particular topic because I strongly believe that we are largely shaped not only by significant experiences, but also by those people that we meet and have the privilege of knowing in our day-to-day lives. I chose to write about a former teacher who certainly did have a profound influence on me, yet there were many other people that I could have written about as well. Most of these other significant individuals are not teachers in the formal sense of the word, but still they have taught me many life lessons, and I wish I could have written about all of them. Still, I think that I might have chosen to focus on this particular teacher, rather than all of these other equally significant “educators,” because I am very aware of her influence right now as I enter the world of college and begin to consider a major in English, the subject I feel she introduced me to.