Beauty and Risk

Education has risks to it, just like everything else in life. There will always be risks in what you do. Education may be full of risks but at the same time I think it is also full of inspiration and accomplishments. The students that I can reach during my career in education, however few they may be, will make the risks of education worth it. I think the positives of education can come to outweigh or at least balance the risks of education. From reading Biesta, the risk in education will always be there because it involves human interaction. There will always be risk in education, otherwise according to Biesta (2013) “there is a real chance that we take out education altogether” (p. 1). I think there are many different risks in education. There is the risk of not having enough subjectivity between the teachers and students (subjectivity in the meaning of Biesta). There is the risk of not having actual communication and not being able to then connect with the students to be able to help them in their educational careers. There is the risk of causing unintentional harm to the students, like Phyllis told Edwin. Education is a beautiful risk to me because although I may face those challenges, I will be able to hopefully connect with at least one of my students in a positive way. That is the beauty of all the risks. There is always something wonderful that can come from all the risks. To me, a risk is anything that can be seen as something that may get in the way of a child’s performance. We try to eliminate the difficulties of human interactions in order to eliminate communication errors but I don’t think we can ever truly get rid of this type of risk in education. I think that is the meaning of beautiful. The risks are something that is naturally there. They can’t be removed without getting rid of education as a whole. There are risks all through life that we have to work our way through. We can’t just eliminate all the risks and make things perfect. The risks in life are what make life worth living, just like the risks in education make it worth going into an education career. Seeing those who do go into education, even though there are the risks, is beauty in itself.