2010年4月14日星期三

Education should open the mind.

The supposed purpose of education, nike air max 90 as marketed 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. We will discuss the social importance of education later.
Educational importance before the industrial revolution was tied to: nike air max 2009
1) learning,
2) preparation for wise leadership and personal achievement,
3) opening your mind to new ideas.
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. 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 nike air max 2010 of higher learning spend so much energy shouting long and hard on ideas that students will probably embrace naturally. Question authority, scientifically test and verify your 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. nike air max 360 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 become one sided and two dimensional. Question those of us with educational authority; look past our emotion laden tirades to find our agenda. Expand your thoughts to
We each learn differently Nike Mens Shoes 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).
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. NIKE ShOX Rival
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, and find 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 cheap nike shoes.
People act differently as they disassociate game play from reality; they experiment, learn to sacrifice for victory, use personal patterns to enhance development, consider trade-offs and negotiations. These types of skills are useful in meatspace (real life), if thought is used to realize the power of gaming decision trees (flexibly planned development) to our futures.

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