A Fish Story
Lessons learned by reading A Fish StoryThe Fish Story (Scudder, Samuel J. 1874 in Downing, Skip. 2005) is about a college professor teaching his class to dig deeper to find more answers without supervision. The lesson these students learned was to strive to find as many answers as they could on their own. This pertains to everyday life as well. By being left on their own to find pertinent facts about a fish, I believe these students learned a lot about finding facts in every aspect of their lives.There are always lessons to be learned in college. A perfect example of this can be found in a "Fish story" (Scudder, Samuel J. 1874 in Downing, Skip. 2005). This is a very enlightening story that I was assigned to read. In this short story a college professor asked his class to observe a small fish on a plate. The students, left to observe the fish on their own, of course thought the professor crazy. They didn't understand why the professor left or what he actually wanted them to do. Some students even wondered why he was being paid to teach. During t
It wasn't until the third class when the professor asked the same thing of them that they actually took time to really look at the fish. This story has taught me that I need to slow down and search for all the facts, before the task is complete. By cutting open the fish, one student found that the fish had another smaller fish in its belly. My son always says "Mom, you don't know the full story". I believe that the students figured out that by only observing the obvious during the previous classes, they missed a lot of important details. This learning experience is sure to reward the students with future endeavors. These students learned that things are not always what they seem. I think it is human nature to do this but I believe we can condition ourselves to always dive deeper and search for more. Too many times, at work or at school, I do not take the time to really see the big picture. They only wrote notes on the size of the fish or about what color the plate was that the fish was on. I know that the professor was proud that he managed to teach these students the value of digging deeper. The following class the professor asked the class to once again observe the fish. In college as well as in life things is not always what they seem. I will use this new found knowledge in college as well as in everyday life. Not until I finally started doing some research on colleges and asking friends did I find that LeTourneau offered adult based classes.
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