Plans for the future

What I mean by my plans for the future, is what I want to study and what and where I want to work. But everyone also has a secret or not secret dream job they want. It can be an actor, a famous musician or even a professional athlete. I also have a dream job. I wish I could be a major league baseball player. This dream job is more of an american dream than here in Finland. I love baseball. I’ve played it since I was  five years old. Baseball is a sport I would like to play for the rest of my life, thats how much I love it.

But moving on, my studies are still not fully planed but I am starting to get ideas of what I want to do. But for my job I was hoping I could do something related to software engineering. This interests me, because I think electronics will play a big part in the future and I’ll have an advantage over it in this area of work. Also, I am interested in electronics more than other things like going to the office and doing paperwork. I’m not saying there won't be paperwork where I want to go, but I’m hoping there's less.

Will finding the job be easy with all this unemployment? Personally I don’t have much experience in getting a job, but by what I’ve read I think it will be fairly hard. But if I get the right education that not many people have, then I think it will be easier. But now finding some job experience is kind of hard for a person in my position, seeing that I go to America every summer, but I will try. Also, I’m not sure that employment is the same in Finland and in the US, but in the end I hope my life goes happily and successfully!

Finland's is number one in education!

I read this article, that says that Finland has the best education system in the world followed by South Korea. The thing that amazed me in this is how two completely different school systems are both top ranked.I live and go to school in Finland so I know how the school system works here and my English teacher showed me a video about her teacher exchange in South Korea and it was totally different. In the South Korean school the studying hours for the kids is mesmerizing compared to my school here in Finland.The kids got up at around 7:00 to go to school and after school ended at 15:00 they would go to extra tutoring and then they'd get home at around 22:00 and go to sleep. The thing I wonder is, how can they be so different but still they both come out on top.

“The rankings are calculated based on various measures, including international test scores, graduation rates between 2006 and 2010, and the prevalence of higher education seekers.“ The international test scores are in my opinion, the only good way to rank countries and the schools themselves. They show the knowledge that the students have learned there and puts it in an easy form to rank. The other ways are also effective but the tests are the most.

I also watched this video which shows first grade students using smartphones for their class work. The kids red small stories from their school books and then filmed them by making paper cut outs and filming them with the smartphone. The idea is to get the kids to read and understand what they read and add something fun to the learning, which in this case is the filming. I think this is a great idea, because it gets the kids to learn better because they're doing something fun and enjoyable and they also learn how to use the smartphone which is needed in these days and in the future. It also seems to work well by how the kids work and take part in the lesson.

An open mind

“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one” - Malcolm S. Forbes

To be open minded, as Malcolm Forbes is trying to say, means you are open to new things. For example to new foods and to try new sports. In the dictionary, the definition for open minded is: ”Receptive to new ideas or to reasons; free from prejudice or bias.”

But does education help you to became open minded, like Malcolm Forbes is trying to say? In my opinion no. I have learned to be open minded from my parents, but my father mostly. I remember being young and I did not want to try a new food that he had made or we bought from somewhere, but he always reminded me to stay open minded. Now that I have written this far I am going to change my mind on Forbes's quote. Education does give an open mind by teaching us things and us wanting to go further with it. Although this is hard to explain, i'm sure everyone at some point has heard something in school and gone home that day and tried it themselves and sometimes they just might want to go a little further.

In close, Malcolm Forbes's quote is right, but also wrong. An open mind is “obtained” mostly by how you see people in life and and how you are taught in life. Your educational years also teach you, but then again we're always learning.

The young today

Being young today usually revolves around electronics and social networks. Our daily chore is to check facebook or twitter and then go to youtube. Younger people have the upper hand now by knowing how to use all the different electronics that are needed everywhere you go. But what some young people don't understand yet is that their education is the most important thing they're doing right now. Education is the key to our future. But the thing you need to find is what you like doing.
Our generation today is something new everyday. We can learn about places all over the world in minutes. We are learning and discovering new things everyday. But there are some people who do not wish to adapt to these new technologies and live plain simple lives. These people are called amish. The amish live in the countryside in little towns.They pretty much live off themselves by growing and cooking their own food. Why I am bringing this up is because I wonder why? Why do these people choose to stay back in a certain century instead of adapting to the new things.
For me, being young today is the best thing in the whole world. My favourite thing that has become very good is local transportation. Local transportation used to be a couple buses going to certain places but now you can take a bus anywhere. Its the most useful thing now and some people don't notice that. Also, gaming consoles have also been a big thing in my life. there a good way to have fun alone or with friends although some people might disagree. Communication with cell phones is now also much easier because you can talk to someone anyone at anytime. Its good for if you're going to meet someone and you notice you don't have time or if you get lost. But those are main things that affect my life now, in this generation.