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Faby
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Education
Greetings, fair people of the SS fora.
The subject I'll be writing about today is one that is on the mind of every human being, pretty much every day of the week: education.
When you talk to people nowadays about education, they tend to foam around the mouth and scream stuff like "ZOMG TEH EDUMACASHUN IS TEH MOST IMPORTUNT EVUUUR".
To me, education can be split in two types:
1. The type of education that implies common sense, using logic and respecting people. Which is the type I agree that everybody should have, yet I don't see how school teaches you to be rational/respectful.
2. The type of education that is made of stuff you know. How to write, how to read, how to do basic maths, how to operate on a computer.
Let's say that people, when they refer to education, think of the second type. But I look around and see that everybody can read, everybody can write, everyone can do 1+1, and everybody knows how to make a folder. I'm not going to generalise and say that everybody has this knowledge, just everybody I know. School is surprisingly useful in this case, but I don't see anything in teaching your kids how to read and write that a parent can't do. The subject of faily parents is one that I will not write about today.
Beyond this, I don't really see how education is useful in real life, except if you work in a certain area and that area requires specific education (for example, knowing how to use C++ if you're hired as a software developer).
Don't take me wrong, I do not, under any circumstance, promote ignorance or stupidity. People should learn about the things they like, even if they don't have practical uses, but to say that everybody should be "well-educated", even if that education has no real use is... I dunno, silly. Not to mention the fact that schools fail in educating people beyond the basic things.
We should first make sure that everybody can read and write, and then worry about how much they know about the theory of music.
So? What does education mean to you?
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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Disaster lurks within good fortune;
Who can say how things will end?
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Re: Education
Education is the gaining of unbiased pure knowledge of one or more subjects.
"I heard a joke once. Man goes to doctor says "I'm terribly depressed". Doctor says "I know just what you should do. Poliacci the clown is in town, go see him, you'll be cheered right up." The man bursts into tears. "But Doctor, I am Poliacci." Funny joke. Roll on snare drum. Everyone laugh."
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Re: Education
The Swift Wrote:Education is the gaining of unbiased pure knowledge of one or more subjects.
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Re: Education
It doesn't mean anything to me.
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