User:Cbmurphy

About the author My name is Cristina Murphy. I come from a large family of eight children and was born in the Dominican Republic. To me education is very important as it was to my mother and making sure that all eight of her children received an education. My mother did not want to send us to public school, and she did not have the finances to send us to private school so she chose to home school us.

When I was growing up we had a library at home with books about science, math, and religion. We also had several sets of encyclopedias. Reading in the library everyday was routine as a part of our home schooling. It was also a part of how we learned English, which at the time was not offered in public schools in the Dominican Republic.

When I was twelve years years old I was registered in a private school because our family moved to Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico it was required for children to attend school and home schooling was not recognized as a way of educating children. I was scared at first, but with the really strong educational foundation my mother provided I was able to excel and found that I did better then those students whose parents were not so involved in there children's education. I did very well through the rest of primary school and went on to go to college. I consider my mother to be an amazing person and a great educator. She achieved her goal of sending each one of her eight children to college.

In conclusion, I believe in a more personalized education so that children may reach higher potential involving both parents and communities. My mothers strong belief in education is the basis for my educational philosophy and a great part of why I want to become a teacher now.Cbmurphy (talk) 21:23, 7 December 2008 (UTC)