Education is something that many have said much about. Most of these are complex or vague. Consider the Greek philosopher Aristotle's saying that education is 'an ornament in prosperity' and 'a refuge in adversity'.
This document discusses issues with the current education system and questions for transforming it. It argues that the traditional school model of standardized calendars, grade levels, and classrooms in boxes is outdated and does not prepare students for the future. It questions whether standardized testing, curriculum, and physical school infrastructure still make sense. It suggests education needs to be more personalized, integrated with communities, and focused on learning experiences rather than systems. The future of education requires rethinking models to better develop students' skills for a connected, rapidly changing world.
This document discusses learning to know and learning to live together. It argues that learning to know involves mastering learning tools as both a means and an end, allowing people to understand the world and develop skills. It should include developing concentration, memory, and thinking abilities from a young age. Learning to live together is important given violence in the world, and education should focus on discovering other people from an early age, as well as encouraging involvement in common projects to avoid conflict.
The document is a chapter from a book that criticizes the Nigerian education system. It argues that certificates only show that a student attended school but do not prove an education was received. It claims lecturers prioritize textbook sales over teaching, and schools prioritize income over facilities. The system produces "parasites" with certificates but no applicable knowledge to solve problems. It calls for reform to make education truly educate the mind and benefit humanity.
Workers' education aims to serve working populations by developing their skills and knowledge as workers, citizens, and global citizens. It differs from general adult education by focusing specifically on workers. The objectives of workers' education are to enable workers to better participate in trade unions, civic duties, and social/cultural/economic life. Methods may include lectures, discussions, study circles, and recreational activities. Workers' education is conducted by trade unions, universities, community organizations and aims to provide social, economic, cultural, and general knowledge to workers in phases.
Learners and Learning: Section Three: School learningSaide OER Africa
In Section Three we will build on these ideas with special reference to schooling. In particular, we want to focus on the following question: "Should the kind of teaching and learning that occurs in schools be more like the learning that occurs in everyday life?" How is school learning different from everyday learning, and how can teachers implement good school learning in their classrooms?
This document discusses ideas for reimagining the Jewish school of the 21st century. It advocates constructing a model that brings out each student's unique talents and skills rather than imposing a set of beliefs. The ideal school would fulfill the potential for educating individuals and building meaningful communities through enriched Jewish experiences that help students and their families develop enduring ties to Judaism. It should prepare students for the future through a curriculum that cultivates ethical and spiritual development alongside intellectual growth.
Myths and promises of blended learning
While lots of people write about blended learning, it isn’t always clear what is meant, or whether people are writing about the same thing. The purpose of this talk is to identify some assumptions and common assertions made about blended learning, so that these “myths” – claims that seem natural, because their historical and constructed status has been hidden rhetorically – can be explored and challenged. Such myths include the existence of purely online and purely face-to-face learning that can then be blended, ignoring the complex ways in which students learn; the idea that we should incorporate new technology because it is demanded by a new generation of students, ignoring the diversity of students’ experiences and evidence that technology use is not ‘generational’; and the claim that we can turn courses into learning communities through blended learning. Based on this critique, a more complicated picture emerges, highlighting the importance of learners’ purposes, choices and contexts. Throughout, I will argue that a body of work has developed that takes account of this messier, less controllable situation, and that we need to turn to this to as a basis for developing our thinking about blended learning.
- Keynote, 5th International Blended Learning Conference
- Note: sources, licensing information etc given in slide note. That means no re-using or editing of the image from World of Warcraft.
The document discusses the need for modern classrooms to focus on developing students' humanity and values in addition to academics. It argues that classrooms should empower students through discovery-based learning rather than spoon-feeding, incorporate technology and group work, and provide pastoral care from teachers. The goal is to prepare students for life by cultivating moral, spiritual and human values so they become law-abiding and help fight issues like corruption and injustice.
This document discusses issues with the current education system and questions for transforming it. It argues that the traditional school model of standardized calendars, grade levels, and classrooms in boxes is outdated and does not prepare students for the future. It questions whether standardized testing, curriculum, and physical school infrastructure still make sense. It suggests education needs to be more personalized, integrated with communities, and focused on learning experiences rather than systems. The future of education requires rethinking models to better develop students' skills for a connected, rapidly changing world.
This document discusses learning to know and learning to live together. It argues that learning to know involves mastering learning tools as both a means and an end, allowing people to understand the world and develop skills. It should include developing concentration, memory, and thinking abilities from a young age. Learning to live together is important given violence in the world, and education should focus on discovering other people from an early age, as well as encouraging involvement in common projects to avoid conflict.
The document is a chapter from a book that criticizes the Nigerian education system. It argues that certificates only show that a student attended school but do not prove an education was received. It claims lecturers prioritize textbook sales over teaching, and schools prioritize income over facilities. The system produces "parasites" with certificates but no applicable knowledge to solve problems. It calls for reform to make education truly educate the mind and benefit humanity.
Workers' education aims to serve working populations by developing their skills and knowledge as workers, citizens, and global citizens. It differs from general adult education by focusing specifically on workers. The objectives of workers' education are to enable workers to better participate in trade unions, civic duties, and social/cultural/economic life. Methods may include lectures, discussions, study circles, and recreational activities. Workers' education is conducted by trade unions, universities, community organizations and aims to provide social, economic, cultural, and general knowledge to workers in phases.
Learners and Learning: Section Three: School learningSaide OER Africa
In Section Three we will build on these ideas with special reference to schooling. In particular, we want to focus on the following question: "Should the kind of teaching and learning that occurs in schools be more like the learning that occurs in everyday life?" How is school learning different from everyday learning, and how can teachers implement good school learning in their classrooms?
This document discusses ideas for reimagining the Jewish school of the 21st century. It advocates constructing a model that brings out each student's unique talents and skills rather than imposing a set of beliefs. The ideal school would fulfill the potential for educating individuals and building meaningful communities through enriched Jewish experiences that help students and their families develop enduring ties to Judaism. It should prepare students for the future through a curriculum that cultivates ethical and spiritual development alongside intellectual growth.
Myths and promises of blended learning
While lots of people write about blended learning, it isn’t always clear what is meant, or whether people are writing about the same thing. The purpose of this talk is to identify some assumptions and common assertions made about blended learning, so that these “myths” – claims that seem natural, because their historical and constructed status has been hidden rhetorically – can be explored and challenged. Such myths include the existence of purely online and purely face-to-face learning that can then be blended, ignoring the complex ways in which students learn; the idea that we should incorporate new technology because it is demanded by a new generation of students, ignoring the diversity of students’ experiences and evidence that technology use is not ‘generational’; and the claim that we can turn courses into learning communities through blended learning. Based on this critique, a more complicated picture emerges, highlighting the importance of learners’ purposes, choices and contexts. Throughout, I will argue that a body of work has developed that takes account of this messier, less controllable situation, and that we need to turn to this to as a basis for developing our thinking about blended learning.
- Keynote, 5th International Blended Learning Conference
- Note: sources, licensing information etc given in slide note. That means no re-using or editing of the image from World of Warcraft.
The document discusses the need for modern classrooms to focus on developing students' humanity and values in addition to academics. It argues that classrooms should empower students through discovery-based learning rather than spoon-feeding, incorporate technology and group work, and provide pastoral care from teachers. The goal is to prepare students for life by cultivating moral, spiritual and human values so they become law-abiding and help fight issues like corruption and injustice.
The document discusses the need for modern classrooms to focus on developing students' humanity and values in addition to academics. It argues that classrooms should empower students through discovery-based learning rather than spoon-feeding, incorporate technology and group work, and provide pastoral care from teachers. The goal is to prepare students for life by cultivating moral, spiritual and human values so they become law-abiding and help fight issues like corruption and injustice.
The document discusses the importance of lifelong learning. It describes how the author has always had a curious nature and enjoyed learning new things from a young age. It details some of the author's educational and career experiences that have sparked further learning. The author expresses how pursuing an MLIS degree will help achieve professional goals of providing access to resources and demonstrating that new technology need not deter access to information.
The time has come for soulful learning. We have had decent of machine like overtures to education which girdle the human soul. The present inclinations of outcomes based education and liability drain the strength from our schoolrooms. The pressure for enumerating all learning without apprehension for quality suppresses the student's emotion. Instead, we can learn to convey onto the Earth a schooling of deep joy anywhere the soul once again acquires to sing. Soulful learning encourages the inside life of the student and links it to the external life and the background. It recognizes and gives priority to the human emotional rather than simply developing individuals who can “contend in the global efficiency.†Reinstating the soul to education is not a new vision. It is vision enounced by the Greeks and various congenital people for spans. It is ascertained in Taoism and the in the pedagogies of Christ and the Buddha. Why should plan to less than our ascendants Education has lost its manner we need to look for the soul to recover and recall our “original attribute to the existenceâ€. Ansari Bushra Batool "Soulfulness and the Education" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46429.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/46429/soulfulness-and-the-education/ansari-bushra-batool
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1. Mikael Phoebus Apollo Mcnealy - Education and the Complete Individual
Education is something that many have said much about. Most of these are complex or vague.
Consider the Greek philosopher Aristotle's saying that education is 'an ornament in prosperity'
and 'a refuge in adversity'. There have been a great many attempts to explain this description,
but none have quite succeeded in satisfying my curiosity. Alternatively, this is what the English
essayist Joseph Addison has to say on education: What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to a human soul. This too, has a great many explanations and elaborations. But
does it really tell us what education is? Does it tell us why we need education? Not really, since
the concept of the soul is, till date, a shadowy area. So how can we begin to comprehend what
everyone claims is essential to life nowadays? To put it simply, education is a process of training
our mind so that we can apply it in a field of our choice: which is why we have education not as
a single seamless entity, but as a whole made up of various divisions: music education, scientific
and technological education, art education, even teacher education!
Education can be considered similar to picking and eating a fruit. Picking a particular fruit on the
tree is akin to choosing a field to get an education of. When we bite into it, we get our first
taste of the subject. As we chew on the bitten portion, we begin to understand its various
aspects - the tastes, textures, intricacies and complexities of it - and when we are ready to
move on to the next portion, we swallow what we have assimilated so far so that it can be used
for further application. The tree we get the fruit from is the entire body of past thinkers'
teachings and the voice that tells us which fruit to pick is the interpreter of that knowledge: the
teacher.
Throughout the lifelong course of education (no, it's not like school or college which ends after
a fixed period of time), we get to know about things that always were, still are and always will
be around us, waiting to be recognized and acknowledged. Light plays a central role in
education - both literally and metaphorically - for visual inputs are the best learnt and without
light - of the sun or electrical - we would be missing out on a whole world of knowledge. In fact,
this is where phrases like 'light of knowledge', 'throw light on the matter', 'kept in the dark' and
so on came from.
You might be thinking, how can we narrow the infinite field of knowledge to select what we will
need or want to know? This is where the part on 'training the mind' comes in. The mind, as
psychology tells us, is the centre of cognitive faculties which enables consciousness, thinking,
perception and judgement.
2. It is the kitchen for the information we acquire, where we can season and prepare the bits and
pieces of data into comprehensive knowledge. Like any good kitchen, the mind has infinite
capabilities (which is often the reason for confusion among us youth when it comes to deciding
on a particular field to 'specialize in' for higher education) and therefore needs to be trained in
order to make this choice clearer as every good chef needs to know what to or not to use for a
dish. Unfortunately, the world we live in does not allow us to experiment with our capabilities
without being ostracized or reduced to penury. Thus the need for specialization. And thus the
need for education.
Another obvious question would be: how can we get education? It's easier to use metaphors
and analogies when describing something like this, but a parallel in the real world is sometimes
hard to provide. One answer could be a school, college or university. There are also other
means to formally get education. Such as home-schooling, distance learning etc. All of these
provide us with a forum to exchange knowledge - where we can gain as well as give. This is a
guided and restricted form of education, especially in the Indian scenario. It is difficult to find a
good school where we can tailor our education according to our needs and interests.
3. Often, we fail to avail of the opportunity even if it is within our reach. Peer pressure, our
parents' and elders' wants, whims and wishes and societal trends all play a role in influencing
us. And this very often has an adverse effect with the student being unable to cope with the
contradictory inputs and buckling under the combined pressure. An educational system where
students can fulfil their desires and not bow to transient trends is necessary for proper
development and realization of one's full potential. An example of how this can help could be
the famous English poet John Keats. Trained to become a doctor, Keats renounced his
apothecary's license to follow his desire, eventually creating a path for himself that no one else
has quite been able to match.
Education is not just a pathway to money, as is often considered nowadays. The fact that it
provides a doorway to affluence is secondary. Education is first and foremost, I believe, a
source of joy and pleasure that is also a means of enhancing our capabilities. It is a landing that
provides us with infinite doorways to choose to continue into, each leading to a different yet
interconnected walk of life (after all, how can we forget that science and philosophy, despite
being 'at odds with one another' go back beyond human comprehension?).
The needs of the human in order to lead a productive and satisfactory life have long been
debated. Yet one point stands clear in this debate: along with the basic necessities of food,
clothing and shelter, education is extremely necessary, especially in today's material world.
After all, without education, one cannot gain employment and without employment, one
cannot fulfil his/her basic needs and is considered a failure by modern society.
The knowledge we gain through our guided education is definitely useful for life in the sense
that they will be required to succeed in gaining and maintaining employment, a must to be
accepted in society. Not having a job is enough to have you labelled lazy, a failure, even weird
or odd. And any employer will require you to have a thorough knowledge of your field, which is
easily available for the taking through education.
Education provides us with an endless canvas. How much of it we put into use is up to us. New
fields seem to emerge everyday - parapsychology, particle physics, noetics, to name a few.
Although relatively 'unknown' or 'obscure', these have as much importance as the others we
know of. The flood of engineers and accountants that India is facing seems to know no end.
Easy money is apparently all people seems to think of. They are becoming flat characters in the
play of life: although given names like 'security of future', lust for a fat wallet seems to be the
only motivation.
4. On the other hand, there are billions of people around the world who want to get an education
but are unable to due to poverty, geographical isolation, familial conditions or ignorance. Like
the Lady Law, education is blind to the faults or favours of those who take a sip from its pool.
The people who are not able to get to its banks because they are dragged back by the brambles
of shortcomings - economic, social or cultural - have to endure a life full of superstition, fear,
hopelessness, helplessness, poverty and exclusion. The literate but uneducated are considered
equal to the illiterate as their life pretty much goes to waste (not everyone is the Old English
poet Cædmon, after all). We must, however, keep in mind that this 'education' is totally career-
oriented - a trait that has emerged in the past decades.
Let us now consider another angle. So far we talked of the relevance of education in the
tangible corporeal world. But, being human beings, the intangible yet equally expansive world
of our feelings is equally important. Education plays a major role in helping us find our niche
here as well. We humans are inherently social. Even 'loners' have at least one person in their
confidence. In fact, the more solitary one is, the stronger the bond is with those that person
does interact with regularly. Even those who have large friend circles have an inner circle of
those who they trust. So, where do these friends come from? Most of our friends and
acquaintances come from school, college and our workplace and education is the line
connecting these dots to one another.
5. We go to school and college to get an education, as do those who become our friends. We talk
about things that we have learnt somewhere down the line: academically, through music, film,
news bulletins, books, etc.
These, too, are an important part of our education. Academia alone is not enough to make us a
complete person. It is definitely important, but our character and personality depends on our
education as well. As we grow up, we learn new things and experience various feelings and
emotions. Events and situations, too, play a part in education. Growing up, we have quarrelled
with our parents. These sometimes go downhill over time and ruin the parent-child
relationship. Alternatively, it can also teach us to give people space and motivate us into trying
to understand before blindly contradicting. Regardless of that outcome, it teaches us what not
to do when we take up the mantle of parenthood. Whether we put it to use is, of course, a
completely different question altogether.
Besides academic information, schools also impart social education. They teach us, sometimes
by pointing out our mistakes, what we should or shouldn't do in a particular situation. For
instance, we learn to stand up and greet a teacher when he/she enters our classroom. We also
learn to respect our higher-ups and when to follow instructions without question. This gives us
an idea of the norms of society.
Education teaches us control. It tells us what is acceptable behaviour in a certain environment
and what isn't. Experience, which is yet another form of education, often also teaches us when
to exercise caution and when to be spontaneous. For example, at an informal gathering like a
house party, it is acceptable - even expected - to wear casual clothes. Also, we can be freer in
expressing ourselves: we can talk over one another, raise our voices etc. In an office party or a
similar formal gathering, on the other hand, a certain code of conduct is expected to be
followed. A professional front - in both mannerism and appearance - has to be maintained.
Formal attire is required and an unruly or unkempt appearance must be avoided. We also learn
these things through books, entertainment, word of mouth etc. Education and its imparting is
therefore an intimate and implicit part of our social life as well.
Education is a major source of mental contentment. There is a simple, innocent pleasure in
gaining knowledge. As sentient living beings, we humans are inherently curious. And fulfilling
that curiosity paves the way for further questions to be answered, for the thirst for knowledge
to become a quest for more. Also, considering the level of competition nowadays, any and
every little snippet of information in addition to what our peers know gives us an edge in the
rat race of modern life. And success because of that little edge gives us a great deal of
satisfaction, joy and pride: the boost to our self-esteem that is essential to our well-being,
mental and, thereby, physical.