<p>Timed for 25 minutes and written on paper. This is my essay with all the original grammar and spelling mistakes. Please grade my essay out of 12? Many thanks... </p>
<p>Prompt: Is education primarily the result of influences other than school?</p>
<p>Education comes in many different forms, by school and by life experiences- environments, observations and people. As exemplified by literary and biographical examples, life experiences are the primary catalysts of enlightenment, and a more valuable form of life education as well. As school, in a way, encourages students to not make mistakes, trial-and-error is essential to the accretion of knowledge. </p>
<p>In the novel "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, the protagonist, Jonas, lives in a society with stringent restrictions to all aspects of the human life- food, curfew, and jobs. Jonas, a "twelve", is chosen to be a receiver, and during training, he receives memories. His society is depleted of colour, of emotion and of the individual free to choose. As a receiver-in-training, he receives memories of the happiness during Christmas, the coldness of snow, and the pain of falling and scraping a knee. In a few days of training, Jonas gains more experience and knowledge than he did in 12 years of schooling. With "experience" and new insights to the world, he is able to cultivate his own conscience of right and wrong. He eventually decides that his community is unethical and leaves. One learns through multifarious experiences, and Jonas in "The Giver" is exemplary of a person who gains significantly more knowledge through experience than through the systematic ways of schooling. </p>
<p>Similar to Jonas, in "The Giver", Albert Einstein was a real-life physics genius. Born in Munich, Germany, he was indifferent to the education he received. In elementary school, he was deemed "idle" and "obtuse" by his teachers; in university, he dropped out of classes frequently, much to the irritation of many teachers. However, he developed a fascination for light and movement at a very young age. Although he was no good at doing tests, he was a profound observer. He received a children's book that spoke of a tale in which a little girl tried to fly at the speed of light. He, then, developed his own ideas of light relativity in space at the age of twelve. </p>
<p>Education is emphasized nowadays as the only solution to world problems. However, as proven by various people and literature, education is not the primary way of learning. </p>
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