In his essay "The Driver's Seat," Adam Gopnik narrates his experience learning to drive as an adult. He focuses on learning to drive, but we can also think about how his experience relates to other learning experiences - for example, we can more broadly consider the questions he addresses about why he decided to learn, what process he followed, and how he reflected on his learning. Gopnik's narration also discusses the roles that various people played in his learning, especially his driving teacher, Arturo Leon. At one point in the essay, Gopnik compares learning to drive to learning to write.
For this essay, you will narrate an event or describe a person in your life that is important to your outlook on learning or writing. You might consider these possibilities to help you arrive at a topic:
• A person who taught you something about learning or writing, through words or actions, perhaps by setting either a good example or a bad one
• An event that challenged you to learn something new or change your approach to learning or writing
• A learning or writing situation you encountered at work or in your community that involved a failure
• A learning or writing situation you encountered at work or in your community that involved an important victory