Thursday, September 28, 2006
Education
Why do people seek education?
This account may not be accurate. There is also overuse of absolute terms.
Education, in a sense, is a process that facilitates the passing down of knowledge, from one generation to the next. Knowledge and education is not unique to mankind. In the animal kingdom, living beings pass down valuable experiences to their offsprings. Their offprings were educated with information regarding hunting techniques, poisonouse plants to avoid etc. In their case, such knowledge is neccessary to ensure survival.
Human, with its vast lump of muscle in the skull, featured the ability to generate more and more complex knowledge and wisdom that may be totally detached from its basic purpose of ensuring survival. Knowledge in human beings had in fact surpassed its fundamental role, and plays an active part in upgrading the living conditions and helping to understand the world.
Education allows individuals who are motivated and curious, to satisfy their new-found need to seek knowledge. Such individuals left deep impact in our hearts, even when they are as dead as the dodo. Albert Estein and Thomas Edison are examples of names that found a household status due to those individuals' ability to seek knowledge, gain understanding, and benefit mankind.
Compared to their days, there are more and more "well-educated" individuals in the world. Yet the meaning of education then and now had undergone a massive transformation. While knowledge seekers in the past actively seek new knowledge and learn from experiences of their forefathers, knowledge seekers now do nothing but repeatitively copy and paste static data from one generation to the next.
In today's society, education no longer implies the pursue of knowledge for reasons similar to the past. Curiousity that drives educational had gave way to money, greed and selfishness. The educated masses now seek knowledge in order to attain the status of being an "educated" individual, which can heighten the chance of him of her landing on a well paid job, increasing that individual's standard of living as a result. Compare this to the past where knowledge seekers like Marie Curie seek knowledge to save lifes, giving up her own in the process. Today's education simply implies selfishness of the individual and encapsulates the "greed factor".
While individuals nowadays still use the old meaning of education to explain away their greed and to provide an excuse for their selfishness, this is merely an illusion brought about by further selfishness; lying to oneself to provide an excuse for the wrong doing of oneself.
We see teachers, lawyers, doctors, engineers and other high paying occupations. Grab one out from the crowd, and make them ask themselves whether they enter such a profession in order to sincerely help people; to benefit others, or simply because they want to make their own live a materatistic one.
This selfishness has its consequences. Rare individuals who seek education truly for the sake of benefiting others are often displaced by individuals who are strongly motivated by their own greed. As a result, the handful of individuals who could have made a difference were not given a chance to do so.
When we compare scientists then and now, signifcant discoveries and experiments had steeply dwindled. No present scientist can be as impactful or as insightful as those in the past. No present scientist could attain household status for their names.
Passion is in fact out for lunch.
This account may not be accurate. There is also overuse of absolute terms.
Education, in a sense, is a process that facilitates the passing down of knowledge, from one generation to the next. Knowledge and education is not unique to mankind. In the animal kingdom, living beings pass down valuable experiences to their offsprings. Their offprings were educated with information regarding hunting techniques, poisonouse plants to avoid etc. In their case, such knowledge is neccessary to ensure survival.
Human, with its vast lump of muscle in the skull, featured the ability to generate more and more complex knowledge and wisdom that may be totally detached from its basic purpose of ensuring survival. Knowledge in human beings had in fact surpassed its fundamental role, and plays an active part in upgrading the living conditions and helping to understand the world.
Education allows individuals who are motivated and curious, to satisfy their new-found need to seek knowledge. Such individuals left deep impact in our hearts, even when they are as dead as the dodo. Albert Estein and Thomas Edison are examples of names that found a household status due to those individuals' ability to seek knowledge, gain understanding, and benefit mankind.
Compared to their days, there are more and more "well-educated" individuals in the world. Yet the meaning of education then and now had undergone a massive transformation. While knowledge seekers in the past actively seek new knowledge and learn from experiences of their forefathers, knowledge seekers now do nothing but repeatitively copy and paste static data from one generation to the next.
In today's society, education no longer implies the pursue of knowledge for reasons similar to the past. Curiousity that drives educational had gave way to money, greed and selfishness. The educated masses now seek knowledge in order to attain the status of being an "educated" individual, which can heighten the chance of him of her landing on a well paid job, increasing that individual's standard of living as a result. Compare this to the past where knowledge seekers like Marie Curie seek knowledge to save lifes, giving up her own in the process. Today's education simply implies selfishness of the individual and encapsulates the "greed factor".
While individuals nowadays still use the old meaning of education to explain away their greed and to provide an excuse for their selfishness, this is merely an illusion brought about by further selfishness; lying to oneself to provide an excuse for the wrong doing of oneself.
We see teachers, lawyers, doctors, engineers and other high paying occupations. Grab one out from the crowd, and make them ask themselves whether they enter such a profession in order to sincerely help people; to benefit others, or simply because they want to make their own live a materatistic one.
This selfishness has its consequences. Rare individuals who seek education truly for the sake of benefiting others are often displaced by individuals who are strongly motivated by their own greed. As a result, the handful of individuals who could have made a difference were not given a chance to do so.
When we compare scientists then and now, signifcant discoveries and experiments had steeply dwindled. No present scientist can be as impactful or as insightful as those in the past. No present scientist could attain household status for their names.
Passion is in fact out for lunch.
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