Education is an essential part of our lives. Education is a key which leads us to have a successful life in the future, but people never know that only a tiny part of people can achieve success in their education. Elders frequently say that current children should be happy in their education because they have the opportunity to go to school every day. Conversely, most students strongly disagree with their views because they think that the process of achieving the path at campus is the process of falling into the hell. Dozens of schoolwork are always beside the working desks with students. There is a huge burden for students and it is one of reasons makes students unhappy in learning at school. Students cannot be pleasure at school because they don’t know the actual meaning of happiness in education. We have various methods to be happier in education, such as seeking the personal interests, setting appropriate educational goals and communicating with classmates and teachers.
Most students never concern that education isn’t a type of responsibility which is given by parents. However, they always recognize that the purpose of learning is to get the highest grade as possible for presenting to their parents and ignore whether they enjoy in learning or not. Their responsibility is to produce an excellent grade report card to their parents even though they are enforced to learn a hateful major at campus. Getting excellent grades in various classes doesn’t always make students happy in education. These students will be difficult to seek their occupations because of their lack of specific skills. College students should learn how to seek their interests because it is important to determine their capacity in the future. A well-known psychologist Daniel Goleman says that “Psychologists agree that intelligence quotient contributes only about twenty percent of the factors that determine success. A full eighty percent comes from other factors, including what I call emotional intelligence.” When these students find their interests, they should choose a major related to their individual interest. If they study in their favorite major, they will spend more time on their investigating. They can be happier in their own work and have the opportunity to learn more skills to educate themselves. Everyone can be happier when they seek their actual interests from their lifetime.
Setting appropriate educational goals is one of methods that can make people be happier and help them to succeed in their education. Nowadays, students in the United States are accustomed to enjoy their comfortable formal lives and only a few of them has a clear future educational goals. The author of Happiness Tal Ben-Shahar writes that “having goals, having a clear sense of purpose, is necessary in order to attain flow.” Life is full of conflicts, so we should have preparation to face the difficulties which come from the life in the future. On another way, challenges are the excellent opportunity to improve and develop our skills. When students concentrate on one task and they won’t be interrupt by bystanders, they are going into a situation of happiness. It is easily to attain success. For instance, our school basketball team has a basketball competition with a basketball team of another school. The audiences around the basketball field who support our school team to yell loudly. At the beginning, the audiences are attracted by this wonderful competition. Three hours has gone but the audiences still feel that it seemed that just ten more minutes had passed only.
