Blog 2: " Happiness In Education"

             Mark Van Doren once quoted " our best chance for happiness is education." That is a great saying because without education sometimes you cant be happy in life but that's sometimes because some people don't get an education and still live happy lives. In reading " Happiness In Education" Tal Ben- Shahar discusses two models that illustrate how students are motivated. One is the drowning model and the other is lovemaking model.
            The first model is the drowning model is the passion to relieve yourself of stress from school and once we are relieve of that pain from school, we believe we are much happier. Students aren't happy about school but they bite the bullet and do things that will help or hurt their education. Like if student finish a big project that student is going to throw a party. On the other hand, the lovemaking model is a way of thinking because they feel education makes feel happy now and the future. Students who feel by just by sitting in a classroom or doing math problems for hours is fun.  Students who are like lovemaking model gives them a sense of love from everything they have accomplish.
             I feel like I'm a drowning model because I don't feel happy about going to school or just sitting in class or looking at a hard math problem, oh my god shoot me right then and there but I realize that if I do my work it would benefit me in the long run. when I finish another kind of project or essay or test, I feel like the world has been lifted off my shoulders. it probably the best feeling in the world after I'm done with my school  work. I feel that if I work hard now I can party later exclude for partying now and hard work later.
             I'm the happiest in education is when I'm learning the material and when I can help someone else learn the material because I feel I learn better when I help people because the material repeats in my head so the material stays in my mind so I cant forget it. Like for example, I'm horrible at math but if I get the material and if I teach or show someone how to solve the problem it gets proceed in my head and forever it stays. So I learn the best if I teach someone or explain to someone else what I have learn. So if I'm learn and i know what I'm doing I'm the most happiest person in the world.
               I feel sometimes student get lose in what makes them happy when it comes to happiest. Sometimes, students cant learn because they are always moving so maybe that student should be in dance or playing an instrument or playing a sport. I know I don't like doing school work but I realize that this is going to make my life better in the future.