What is Education?
I believe that education is...
Note that I'm not answering the question, "What is an education?" I'm not even giving a detailed enough answer to my original question. But it is a question I ask myself as often as once a day.
- a near-fundamental human right
- a process in which people learn to transform data into information and information into knowledge
- a political activity
- a drawing out of the mind's awareness
- an attempt to develop reflection and self-reflection
Note that I'm not answering the question, "What is an education?" I'm not even giving a detailed enough answer to my original question. But it is a question I ask myself as often as once a day.
Labels: Education, Odd Questions
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4 Comments:
I recently heard my friend discuss about signal theory in Economics which posits that education is merely a means to signal a worker's ability rather than add any value to his/her true ability.
Just popped into my mind when I read this post. Still think Econs is a whole load of hogwash though.
That would be true when you think of 'Education' as a label (you know, the header of the section which you fill in in your CV) as opposed to a process.
And as I once said, things like Econs are just ways of 'scientization'. They make human transactional behaviour into a pseudo-scientific area of knowledge.
Near-fundamental? No 'near' about it, to me. Of course, there are those who will ignore any amount of teaching, even when served on pretty shiny platters. Some learn from experiencing the raw data themselves, others from observation, and yet others never learn at all.
From all that I've experienced, I'm inclined to believe that there are only shades of grey. And some things are harder to define than others. Unfortunately, education is one of these topics. As is justice.
'Near-fundamental' because you have to be alive to be educated, so life (and the immediate adjuncts to its survival — food, water, shelter) = fundamental. Education, communication are near-fundamental because organisms die in the long term without them. But things like 'freedom' are not fundamental, they're just measures of fortune and resources.
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