Sanjay Joshi

I believe that education extends far beyond the classroom walls, and involves many more people than students and teachers. People should be learning wherever they go, and should continue learning long after they have graduated from high school or college. Education isn't something that can be quantified with tests or report cards, but is instead something that people carry with them. Its a survival pack for life, and some people are better equipped in specific areas than in others. People with a solid education are prepared for nearly anything, as they will be able to provide for their own physical, emotional, and aesthetic needs.
Learning is not a skill that is necessarily instinctual or easy, and therefore different approaches must be used to make learning more accessible and more fun for students. Teaching is not a skill that can be memorised or made repetitive, and so teachers must continue to challenge not only their students, but also themselves. Teachers that become complacent in their jobs are not good teachers. Those who can find a way to make an old lesson new and exciting will have an energised classroom, and will be re-energised themselves.