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<p>[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 3603467, member: 74968"]Let us distinguish between 2 words: training and education. Getting a diploma to get a job is not education it is training. Training assumes that there is a finite set of tasks one needs to master in order to perform a task, education does not make this assumption at all. There is nothing at all wrong with training, it is necessary and valuable, but do not confuse this with education. Education is a process not an end goal. Socrates reportedly said "The only thing I know is I know nothing". Socrates did not supply answers to questions he responded with questions instead. Education teaches us to ask questions. Think of Einstein who asked some of the most brilliant questions in modern history. These include: What would it be like to ride a beam of light, or how would it feel to sit on a proton. Asking these questions hinted at a radically different view of the universe. As a late friend of mine once said "Research is not about finding answers, it is about finding better questions". Training does not teach us to question, education does.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those of you with some Latin should recognize the word Education. It contains 2 roots educare-to train or to mold and educere to draw out or lead out. For me education is about educere. Another way to think of it is by considering this quotation from Yeats "Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire". There is nothing wrong with getting a degree in order to get a job, but there are other reasons to pursue a degree. One of these is to, as Joseph Campbell said, "Follow your bliss". In other words there is more to life than a job. For me education has always been about chasing what makes me passionate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 3603467, member: 74968"]Let us distinguish between 2 words: training and education. Getting a diploma to get a job is not education it is training. Training assumes that there is a finite set of tasks one needs to master in order to perform a task, education does not make this assumption at all. There is nothing at all wrong with training, it is necessary and valuable, but do not confuse this with education. Education is a process not an end goal. Socrates reportedly said "The only thing I know is I know nothing". Socrates did not supply answers to questions he responded with questions instead. Education teaches us to ask questions. Think of Einstein who asked some of the most brilliant questions in modern history. These include: What would it be like to ride a beam of light, or how would it feel to sit on a proton. Asking these questions hinted at a radically different view of the universe. As a late friend of mine once said "Research is not about finding answers, it is about finding better questions". Training does not teach us to question, education does. Those of you with some Latin should recognize the word Education. It contains 2 roots educare-to train or to mold and educere to draw out or lead out. For me education is about educere. Another way to think of it is by considering this quotation from Yeats "Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire". There is nothing wrong with getting a degree in order to get a job, but there are other reasons to pursue a degree. One of these is to, as Joseph Campbell said, "Follow your bliss". In other words there is more to life than a job. For me education has always been about chasing what makes me passionate.[/QUOTE]
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