On Education, or What The Hell Are You Teaching in Schools!
1. Education should make a person better suited to live in the society, irrespective of his vocation, and schools should be the place where that education happens. 2. The learning of anything that does not improve the thought process of the learner towards understanding the nature of his subject is just skill acquisition. _______________________________________ “Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research.…Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational.” Type ‘education’ in wikipedia and you get the above definition. Now imagine the experiences of your school days and sit back and think about how much of your education did you get from your school and how much from other sources. The above statement about education implies that education is learning in