DECLARATION OF LEARNING INDEPENDENCE

      Looking back at the past years in school I have come to the conclusion that nobody has ever taught me to think or to question the information that has been presented to me. Nobody has ever taught me how to be successful, wealthy or smart. I declare to be curious about learning, to seek more than one answer and to think beyond of what I have been taught.
      It has given us only one way to think, presented us with little sources of evidence, and given us fifty minutes to "learn". It has made us think that there is only one way to do things. It has made us feel unworthy, limited, restrained and most of all untrusted.
      I, therefore, declare to take action in my learning experience by being curious, asking questions and viewing things from multiple perspectives.

VOC. #5

1)Obsequious: obedient, dutiful

Up until high school it had been quite easy to be obsequious to all the house rules.

2)Beatitude: exalted happiness

Annie admitted that she had never experienced of beatitude.

3)bete noire: disliked person or thing

Just like I find math to be very difficult so do many others; it is bête noire in our society.

4)bode: predict, announce before hand

As a young child Paul was taught to bode what was going to happen in the novels before he read them.

5)dank: moist, humid, damp

The car was so dank that my hands became sticky with sweat after a few minutes.

6)ecumenical: general, universal

The topic of education is a ecumenical topic.

7)fervid: enthusiasm, burning in spirit

After the church retreat Andrew felt a fervid feeling in his heart.

8)fetid: bad odor, stinky

After finishing his triathlon Nick could not fetid more.

9)gargantuan: gigantic, enormous

I strongly dislike people who make a gargantuan problem out of a small situation.

10)heyday: stage or period of success, strength, high spirits

By the time the homecoming game rally was finished the football players were in a heyday.

11)Incubus: evil spirit, nightmare

When people I do not know come out in my dreams they turn out to be incubus instead of dreams.

12)infrastructure: the underlying framework of a system

The infrastructure of the building needs to be figured out before we actually start the building.

13)inveigle: to entice by flattering talk

John tried to inveigle Betty to be his girlfriend, but she rejected him.

14)kudos: honor, glory

“Kudos to you for starting you Odyssey project on the first day”, I told her.

15)lagniappe: bonus, tip

If I were to work as a waitress I would be extra nice just so I can get a lagniappe.

16)prolix: long, wordy and unnecessary

Mr. Rec prohibited the students to make their thesis prolix, but encouraged them to have straightforward and clear thesis.

17)protégé: under patronage, protection

I am under the protégé of the United States of America.

18)prototype:  model or something that is used to illustrate

The prototype in our science class is tall and bony.

19)sycophant: self-seeking flatterer

He forgot about his family and decided to become a sycophant person.

20)tautology: needless repetition of something

Even though the Mr. Dine knew the class understood the concept and did not need tautology he kept talking about it.

21)truckle: passive, willingness, submissive

I was taught to not truckle to anything without giving a fight