Education is more than just learning from books and it is a shame that a lot of schools do not see that. It is more than just a curriculum and grades. A good education can teach a child how to learn so that the child may take up independent learning as an adult. Education may also teach a child how to be intelligent so that a child does not grow up to be ignorant.

The biggest selling point for education in our society is the fact that it helps people learn “how to learn”. It is not about the knowledge they accumulate, it is the way a child is taught how to “learn” things. A child may finish schooling without knowing a lot of course, but if that child has been taught how to learn, then that child may become an adult that learns everything he/she needs in life. Experience is the best teacher.

Education teaches people how to reason, and if they are taught how to reason well, then they subdue their own thoughts of ignorance. For example, there are lots of posts and websites on the internet about childhood vaccinations and how dangerous they are. Ignorant people that never learn how to reason will look at them believe them and support them. If a person is taught how to reason then he/she will know how to recognize empirical evidence.

If the significance of education is not recognized, then one day it will just be all about grades and hitting the factors of a curriculum. There will be a day when children start to hate learning because school put them off it for life. Plus, without education teaching people how to reason things out and teaching them how to separate what is fact from what is faulty evidence, then our society will become more and more ignorant until a smarter country will supersedes us.

 

 

By: Joanna Charisma C. Lomibao | Balanga, Bataan