Sometimes I sit back and reflect on education, its really a big word as it means deeper or more than it sounds and i have had a funny thought about it lately of which i want to share.
Is #education a flexible or non flexible thing? I keep asking myself, in the sense that we are taught series of things to know them and remember, having put varieties of people with different learning abilities and differences under one canopy. We spent years in school learning what to think… but rarely how to think, maybe they cant get to teach that. We dont know the reason behind many things we read and were taught but as long as it felt like something educational we tend to pick interest which is good.
We memorized formulas, dates and definitions all through our years of studying then the funniest is how we passed exams by remembering information long enough to write it down on paper, our lecturers and the school system automatically promotes us to a higher class when i just havent understood or practicalised what i just learnt! They forget that real life does not work like an exam hall.
Take this for example.., a student can easily memorize a mathematical formula like the quadratic equation and score high marks during an exam but when that same person faces a financial decision such as calculating loan interest or evaluating an investment, they may find it very difficult to convert all the mathematical knowledge into real life or they just keep on struggling.
Life is very wierd, he asks questions without multiple choice answers and It takes a whole lot more than education to answer.
In reality there are real intellectual muscles that helps us scale through life. Not that they´re something hard or beyond the natural but they help you see life for yourself and outside the book. What are these nuggets? : Critical thinking, questioning ideas and forming our own perspectives. Yet they are rarely trained inside classrooms but they are more than magic. In my opinion, true education begins the moment we stop asking, “What is the right answer?” and start asking, “Why is this the answer?”
come to think of it, all the remarkable Innovations in our human history happened when people began to challenge the already existing ideas and systems of doing certain things.
Many breakthroughs came from people who asked “why?”
Examples:
• Albert Einstein questioned how time and space actually work.
• Steve Jobs questioned why technology couldn’t be both powerful and beautifully simple.
• Elon Musk constantly asks if systems can be rebuilt from first principles.
These innovators were not just knowledgeable.
They were independent thinkers.
Do you know id have been smarter if i was thought like this…
2 + 2 = 4 (Q) why?
Than teaching me..
2 + 2 (Q) = 4 then teacher goes okay ✅
The first one teaches me the reason behind the formula and not just the answer alone.
Maybe the goal of learning should never just be knowledge but i think the goal should be understanding.
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