What is Education?
What is Education? #
Education simply means “learning”. It’s a natural process.
Ratio of components in Education: #
50% Knowledge/Understanding, 30% Skills, 20% Experience.
Education vs Academics: #
Education and Academics are not the same thing. Academics is Education based of a curriculum and an institution. Plato discovered the word while describing his school of philosophy.
Academics system has evolved with time and got worst. Let’s see what the system has become nowadays: #
- Wrong ratio of knowledge, skill, experience (knowledge takes about 90%).
- Generalised curriculum for all students.
Extra bad: #
- Goals are only bound to exams/grades, degree or certifications (year 1088), then getting jobs.
- Unhealthy pressure and competition for students.
- Money game.
- Politics.
Education as a concept/implementation/system is good. Academics is good only as a concept. It’s implementation and system is always the worst and corrupted.
Activities in Education: #
Knowledge: Reading, listening, watching, feeling, thinking etc.
Understanding: Studying (literary, critical thinking, investigating), researching.
Skill: Practicing.
Experience: Time spending.
Read vs Study vs Research: #
Read: Reading is about watching or interpreting something/someone to gain knowledge.
Study: Studying is about interpreting a topic, going deeper and gaining some conscious understanding out of it.
Research: Research is about studying a topic and then contributing to it with changes from your end.
Reading relates with knowledge.
Studying relates with understanding.
Research relates with understanding and contributing.
Knowledge vs Entertainment: #
- Activities that are done for Knowledge/Understanding (reading, watching, listening, studying etc.) can also be done for Entertainment and vice versa.
Example:
- The first book was to provide Knowledge/Understanding, but later books became a source of Entertainment (fiction).
- Videos can be used for both Knowledge/Understanding and Entertainment purposes. For example, for Knowledge/Understanding, there are documentaries, tutorial videos etc. For Entertainment, there are movies, funny videos etc.
- All these are taken from my notes, all of which I like to write and think about deeply.