30 Day Challenge: Day 9 (How Important You Think Education Is)

Knowledge is freedom. It sparks revolutions and is the vehicle for social change. If you educate a people, they are likely to be more inclined to work toward the betterment of themselves and their community. I think we need be cautious about confusing education with schooling as the two are correlated but not necessarily one in the same. Doing life is what is most educational and I feel experiential learning is what frees me to really understand an issue.

Education is what allows people to enter an existence tempered by purpose. When you increase your base of knowledge, your exposure to new things gives you a platform to plan, dream and live in a way you couldn't do before your schema expanded. 

Quotation that Caught My Eye

My Grandma gave me a "new" book to read last week and when I came across this passage, I wanted to make sure I recorded it somewhere. This will likely end up in a notebook but I wanted to post it online as well...

"Experience has taught me that effective learning takes place when, from books, observation, and the informed opinions of others brought out by a serious discussion of the issues, one is able to strengthen one's opinions, to fortify one's reason against prejudice, superstition, and error, to sharpen one's sensibilities, to enlarge and deepen one's understanding of the world and of life, and above all, to keeps one's mind ever open to the acceptance of new truths and the discarding of old and useless ones." 

Mark Mathabane "Kaffir Boy in America"