The Importance of education may be different than you were taught.
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As the bureaucratic age winds down college degrees as requirements are replaceable;
independent thinkers and visionary leaders are not. Cultivating a love of learning is becoming imperative for success.
Churchill has been attributed with a statement to the effect that "to be young and not be liberal is to have no heart, to be older and not be conservative is to have no brain". If this is a mostly true insight than why must institutions of higher learning spend so much energy shouting long and hard on ideas that students will probably embrace naturally.
If you are a student, ignore repetitious bombast, seek out convincing counter arguments. Then, through synthesis born of contradictory views, make up your own mind. Until you wisely decide to change your mind once again. Open eyes and observe even as your ears are assaulted.
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
Question authority, scientifically test and verify answers, embrace fully only self-proven knowledge. If a pronouncement isn't subject to rigorous challenge, repeatedly verified, and made ever more accurate; it is opinion, not knowledge. History is littered with debris of false, expert-authority opinions. Human progress has been accomplished by those that ignored "established facts," doing the impossible, advancing against the scorn of brilliant and highly educated naysayers. A kite rises against the wind, not with it.
We need freedom of expression if we are to discover truth - if like that kite we seek to soar.
Do not remain two dimensional. Question those of us with educational authority. "We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us" - Virginia Satir
We each learn differently
Shouldn't education be forced to discern and approach individual needs? The bureaucratic answer is consistent - "we need more teachers, and smaller class sizes." If each student is taught the same curriculum, regardless of their skills, desires, temperament, and abilities; class size is immaterial (except as it grows the power and wealth of protected education industries and unions).
"Does the inherent impossibility of traditional education, training, and other formal learning processes drive insane all of those involved for too long?" - Clark Aldrich
In commerce the day of one size fits many is just about over, replaced by self crafted solutions. In education everyone must fit our size is still the rule. You have three choices: you can settle for diminishing expectations of programmed mediocrity, you can fight toward a bureaucratic peak of a settling heap, or you can become a powerfully unique individual.
It is your life you are developing.
Your life, and the lives of your children, will prosper to the degree you can openly structure self-directed learning and keep it pleasurable. This is the educational importance of the Internet - you can discover and test thousands of ways to learn, finding what suits you best.
As just one option: in computer based learning we can experience life in a more realistic format than common schools. Play a complex computer game, and you learn not by memorization and testing, but by trial and error - and then perhaps a bit of study to improve results.
People act differently as they disassociate game play from reality; they experiment, learn to sacrifice for victory, compare risk to reward, use personal patterns to enhance development, consider trade-offs and negotiations, plan for the future. These types of skills become useful in real life, if thought is used to realize the power of gaming decision trees (flexibly planned development) to our futures.
Education Is Important - but all education is self education.
"knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind" - PlatoRigid common schools insist that organization and authority are the keys to education. They are wrong.
It is a student's desire to know that impels learning.
"The desire to know is natural to good men." - Leonardo da Vinci
* If you want to learn - seek out knowledge for yourself.
If you need to fulfill requirements for a bureaucracy you do not have to learn; you only need a diploma from a bureaucratically approved school.
* If you wish to define and achieve your own success - you need wisdom and understanding. That will be found within yourself while seeking wise counsel and considering it until understanding is found. Good books are one source of wise counsel.
We enjoy study from at least two personal sources:
1) Where does our curiosity lead us?
2) What are our goals?
Use formal schools where they are the best source of knowledge. Be very open to other avenues of information, discovery of wisdom should be your primary motivation. Read good books!
The bureaucratic age is ending, to prepare for the age of the empowered individual you will need to be flexible and knowledgeable. Soon the largest employer in the world will be "self" - concentrate on making you more valuable. Continually apply action as you learn how to change the world.
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;
it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts."
Booker T. Washington
Do it. Seek to fulfill your potential. Take the initiative. It is for you; why not do your best?
importance of education is preparation of yourself for an improving future -- how far do you choose to go?
Investments, college, politics, everything - read good books with opposing view points before you make commitments.
A passion filled life, one where you enhance your knowledge by delving deeper into what is most important to you, is endorsed by many - sought by few. If you want an educational goal: dedicate yourself to understanding all sides of issues -- increasing your ability for discerning truth.
"We shall not
grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish."
- F. A. Hayek
The supposed purpose
of education, as told by the education industry, is career advancement,
higher pay, and empowering a college graduate's job search. This represents the
current personal importance of education as determined by a few studies performed
back when bureaucratic machines were still humming.
Education should open the mind.
Effective learning involves creating and solving our own errors. Go ahead; over-step, stretch, become too enthusiastic. When you make those mistakes common to all high achievers, use them to learn. Then enthusiastically attack again.
Pry open your mind, don't let your education rust it shut. Learn to think, not to follow. Combine your learning with action, letting unavoidable errors impel you to seek greater understanding.
Pry open your mind, don't let your education rust it shut. Learn to think, not to follow. Combine your learning with action, letting unavoidable errors impel you to seek greater understanding.
As the bureaucratic age winds down college degrees as requirements are replaceable;
Churchill has been attributed with a statement to the effect that "to be young and not be liberal is to have no heart, to be older and not be conservative is to have no brain". If this is a mostly true insight than why must institutions of higher learning spend so much energy shouting long and hard on ideas that students will probably embrace naturally.
If you are a student, ignore repetitious bombast, seek out convincing counter arguments. Then, through synthesis born of contradictory views, make up your own mind. Until you wisely decide to change your mind once again. Open eyes and observe even as your ears are assaulted.
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
Question authority, scientifically test and verify answers, embrace fully only self-proven knowledge. If a pronouncement isn't subject to rigorous challenge, repeatedly verified, and made ever more accurate; it is opinion, not knowledge. History is littered with debris of false, expert-authority opinions. Human progress has been accomplished by those that ignored "established facts," doing the impossible, advancing against the scorn of brilliant and highly educated naysayers. A kite rises against the wind, not with it.
We need freedom of expression if we are to discover truth - if like that kite we seek to soar.
Do not remain two dimensional. Question those of us with educational authority. "We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us" - Virginia Satir
We each learn differently
Shouldn't education be forced to discern and approach individual needs? The bureaucratic answer is consistent - "we need more teachers, and smaller class sizes." If each student is taught the same curriculum, regardless of their skills, desires, temperament, and abilities; class size is immaterial (except as it grows the power and wealth of protected education industries and unions).
"Does the inherent impossibility of traditional education, training, and other formal learning processes drive insane all of those involved for too long?" - Clark Aldrich
In commerce the day of one size fits many is just about over, replaced by self crafted solutions. In education everyone must fit our size is still the rule. You have three choices: you can settle for diminishing expectations of programmed mediocrity, you can fight toward a bureaucratic peak of a settling heap, or you can become a powerfully unique individual.
Your life, and the lives of your children, will prosper to the degree you can openly structure self-directed learning and keep it pleasurable. This is the educational importance of the Internet - you can discover and test thousands of ways to learn, finding what suits you best.
As just one option: in computer based learning we can experience life in a more realistic format than common schools. Play a complex computer game, and you learn not by memorization and testing, but by trial and error - and then perhaps a bit of study to improve results.
People act differently as they disassociate game play from reality; they experiment, learn to sacrifice for victory, compare risk to reward, use personal patterns to enhance development, consider trade-offs and negotiations, plan for the future. These types of skills become useful in real life, if thought is used to realize the power of gaming decision trees (flexibly planned development) to our futures.
Education Is Important - but all education is self education.
"knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind" - PlatoRigid common schools insist that organization and authority are the keys to education. They are wrong.
It is a student's desire to know that impels learning.
"The desire to know is natural to good men." - Leonardo da Vinci
* If you want to learn - seek out knowledge for yourself.
If you need to fulfill requirements for a bureaucracy you do not have to learn; you only need a diploma from a bureaucratically approved school.
* If you wish to define and achieve your own success - you need wisdom and understanding. That will be found within yourself while seeking wise counsel and considering it until understanding is found. Good books are one source of wise counsel.
We enjoy study from at least two personal sources:
1) Where does our curiosity lead us?
2) What are our goals?
Use formal schools where they are the best source of knowledge. Be very open to other avenues of information, discovery of wisdom should be your primary motivation. Read good books!
The bureaucratic age is ending, to prepare for the age of the empowered individual you will need to be flexible and knowledgeable. Soon the largest employer in the world will be "self" - concentrate on making you more valuable. Continually apply action as you learn how to change the world.
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;
it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts."
Booker T. Washington
Do it. Seek to fulfill your potential. Take the initiative. It is for you; why not do your best?
importance of education is preparation of yourself for an improving future -- how far do you choose to go?
Investments, college, politics, everything - read good books with opposing view points before you make commitments.
A passion filled life, one where you enhance your knowledge by delving deeper into what is most important to you, is endorsed by many - sought by few. If you want an educational goal: dedicate yourself to understanding all sides of issues -- increasing your ability for discerning truth.
Quality education responds to a desire of the student to learn.Instead we have power broker deciding what children need to know and believe to be useful for the authorities
No one, government or private sector, will give you an education worth having. A valuable education is something you have to give yourself.
No one, government or private sector, will give you an education worth having. A valuable education is something you have to give yourself.
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