I believe, first and foremost, that the main purpose of education is to ensure our students gain knowledge in the classroom setting. We must ask ourselves, as teachers, how do our students learn best? Once being with a group of students, you as a teacher must decide the best approach to helping them to understand the curriculum. I believe that there's no one answer to an educational theory, but rather a mixture of several. According to Socrates, true learning is founded on motivation, and he believed in the freedom of the self. I agree with Socrates in the sense that education has to come from the students themselves, and they need to put forth the necessary effort to learn; however, the teachers play a huge role in ensuring that the students find learning fun and interesting. As a teacher, I hope to get the students excited about every aspect of school, and want them to be active and responsible learners. I want them to take responsibility for their education and to tap into their innate abilities to problem-solve and facilitate directed discussion on a subject or topic. Our jobs as teachers do not end in the classroom. They carry out into the real world, and I find myself thinking about and worrying about students even after the last bell of the day has rang. Teaching truly isn't a nine to five job, and I don't intend to treat it that way. My philosophy can be ultimately summed up by this: I do everything I can for the kids. How would you help a student get excited/engaged with a subject that they are struggling in? I find relating the topic to something the student may have an interest in is always a great route to take in situations like this. If the student is more of a movie buff, and I'm teaching them the skill of persuasive essay writing, I'll have them persuade me that _____ is the best movie of all time. It all comes back to knowing your students on an individual level, and altering your teaching practices based off of that knowledge. How do you adapt your tutoring to the student's needs?