Rule Of Three

Lana Lopez Lopez 01

Ms. Williams

English 1A 

13 September, 2013

Rule of three

Big concept: Positive role models lead to future success.

A leading cause of why our youth is mislead is due to the negative role models our children are misguided by. Without being lead towards positive goals and guidance the youth of our nation will fail. Knowledge is power and to be cheated of being educated is like being robbed of your self empowerment. As Thoreau states, “If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated....  but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.... Action from principle,- the perception and the performance of right, - changes things and relations;  it is essentially revolutionary”(Thoreau 11). If we make sure that our youth is guided and get a well established education then the outcomes from it can be enormous. If you are willing to fight for a dollar then you should being will to fight for our youth’s education because it is priceless. It is a our responsibly to make sure our youth is being lead to succeed by teachers and other role models that they are surrounded by. The youth is the future and without positive role models we are setting them up for failure.

Without a positive role models our youth will not learn values and our country will slowly deplete. Youth need guidance to understand why laws and other rules are put in place for their benefit. Such as taxes, if the youth aren’t educated on why they must pay taxes then they may not understand the repercussions soon to come. As Thoreau states  “ If I deny the authority of the State when it presents its tax-bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end... ‘ Pay’ it said, ‘ or be locked up in jail.’ “ (Thoreau 16,17). If the youth aren’t educated on what our tax money goes towards and why we must pay taxes they may choose to rebel, while our streets go unmaintained, prison guards go unpaid, tax paid heath care slowly depletes and public assistance such as WIC and other federal and state programs that help families diminish. Also they will have to deal with these issues because they didn’t have positive role models to guide them on how to deal with fixing their mistakes. The future of our youth may never recover from the issues that arise due to the lack of values and guidance therefore our country will slowly deplete.  

To become a educated and established leader you need someone to look up to who is a positive role model. The younger generation is the future and needs positive role models to help mentor and inspire them. As The Passion Project states , “ Through empathy comes genuine learning...Once the door to the vault is sealed and the classroom undertakes its transformation into a utopia concealed from the outside world, it creates a paradox of exploration and comfort, of expression and absorption. Something more divine than armor is being built.” (Ontiveros 7,12).  When youth are inspired by great leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. , President John F. Kennedy and Mahatma Gandhi the outcomes can be endless. The inspiration from one person to another is like a disease it spreads fast and the outcomes are endless. The student in your classroom can go from someone just going to class because he or she has to, yet a teacher can inspire him or her to pursue their dream to become a Senator because he or she has always wanted to make a difference in their state and how its ran and to be a positive leader, but never had the confidence in themselves to pursue their dream. Having a positive role model can make all the difference in our youths outcome, which sets the bar for our future leaders.