Education!!

[gandall]

Do you like education?

 

[AzH]

As is the same with many of my peers, I didn't like education back when it was free, easy and convenient, and when I had the support of the system, the state and my parents. Now that I'm beyond the usual age for an involvement in education, I find that I love it. Learning is great, and I can hear every school child for miles around laughing away at what I just said.

I intend to restart my education soon with a history course, followed by a degree in history and sociology, followed by teacher training so that I can be the educator.

My son is 3, and his education is the most important thing that I have ever had an influence on.

 

[Molzahn]

I think education is very important, so much so I feel as individuals shouldn't rely solely on institutionalized education.

 

[AzH]

In many ways, all an institution does is authenticate your learning and render it into something that can be used to secure gainful employment, but all true education is based in life and experience. I firmly believe that the day you stop learning is the day you're dead. An active mind is key.

 

[gandall]

Education is good but the way that it is given to people is sometimes bad. EG If a school is bad, its the schools itself, not education. Education is alwyays good

 

[AzH]

I see that thrown around as an excuse a lot of the time. "My school sucked" or "My teachers were assholes" or any other number of excuses from kids to adults who failed in their education. Most of the time it's just a general apathy from the person making the claim, or they realise, too late in life, that they threw away their best chance to do something worthwhile with their lives, and they look for a scapegoat.

 

[nacho]

This seems like a very arbitrary question. I do not understand how you can even ask do you like education? Without it you would not be able to ask the question, therefore you have to like it. If you did not like you would not have learned how to ask the question. One could argue that I learned even though I disliked it, but it is really not possible to learn something you do not like. If you are taught something you do not like you tend to forget it with time. And you obviously did not forget it and still maintain that knowledge. I would imagine a better question would be what do you think of education?

Though, I think education seems to be lacking these days. It is not seen with the importance it should have. Teachers are paid very little in comparison to other jobs. And a teacher is one of if not the most important job when it comes to the youth of the world. It is left to the teachers to inspire and educate the minds of our youth in order for them to advance our civilization.

 

[AzH]

I do not understand how you can even ask do you like education? Without it you would not be able to ask the question, therefore you have to like it.

Throughout our lives we have to do many things we do not like, such as pass tests, east greens, brush teeth, etc etc. Just because we do not like them does not mean we do not do them.

 

[undersc0re]

no i dont as simple as That

 

[nacho]

Throughout our lives we have to do many things we do not like, such as pass tests, east greens, brush teeth, etc etc. Just because we do not like them does not mean we do not do them.

True, but as I said if you do not like it you would not retain the knowledge that you have learned. Think about it objectively if you are forced to learn something, do you recall the ins and outs of it later? Or have you forgotten it over time? The ability to ask a question is taught at a very young age, and had you not liked it you would not know how to ask the question now. And really, there is no like or dislike when it comes to education. You are either educated or you are not. But as always that is just my opinion

 

[AzH]

no i dont as simple as That

Thank you for your intelligently thought out and well presented opinion.

True, but as I said if you do not like it you would not retain the knowledge that you have learned. Think about it objectively if you are forced to learn something, do you recall the ins and outs of it later? Or have you forgotten it over time? The ability to ask a question is taught at a very young age, and had you not liked it you would not know how to ask the question now. And really, there is no like or dislike when it comes to education. You are either educated or you are not. But as always that is just my opinion

Ahh, I have a son, he's three, and I know he doesn't like certain things that we make him do. He doesn't like them, but he learns from them, because that is the nature of being human. When you put your hand near the fire and it's hot and it hurts, you don't like it, but you learn it. And you NEVER forget that, no matter how much time elapses.

 

[Krishna Nepal]

You like it not not, there is no way you could skip education. Whether you want to get a job or understand yourself or the society, you need education. Without education you are blind, deaf and dumb.