Dau's visit

Dau a teacher at a college in Vietnam came and spoke to us on a nice Monday night. I had the privilege of hearing him speak twice, once in ed psych and once in growth and motor development. Each time he spoke I learned something new and some differences between the United States and Vietnam. In Vietnam the family name is a persons first name and their own specific name is their last name. This is because people take pride in which family they come from. They are concerned with helping our their family before themselves. Sometimes here in the United States we are concerned with ourselves and sometimes forget were we come from. This is something that I found to be rather interesting in his presentations. However the thing that I found to be the most interesting was the fact that he started out being born to parents who worked in the rice fields in Vietnam, some of the lowest people in Vietnam. He went from that to working his way through secondary school and University to become a successful college profesor. This is interesting as we go out and become teachers we should do everything in our power to help students who come from families that have absolutely nothing and try to help them become something extraordinary. I'm not saying we should just help students who have nothing because we should help all students reach their full potential to become extraordinary people. Mrs. Gruwell did this when she taught at Wilson High School in the Los Angeles area. She took a group of the "drop outs" or "hopeless" kids and taught them how to love reading and reaching their dreams as students and as people. So it is my goal when I am a teacher to help every student try to find a way to reach their full potential and become extraordinary people.