I think this is basically true. People are born knowing how to think for themselves. If education were approached with this understanding, and taken with a grain of salt, maybe people would trust themselves to explore possibilities, instead of relying on what others tell them they should think.
Education is the exchange of ignorance for a set of prejudices by which we might feed ourselves and pass them on to our ignorant children...or so it seems to me. Sorry Nothing...I just couldn't resist stealing this one! Count Sneaky
Unless you lead them to explaining their point of views and listening to that of others and accepting and appreciating the differences. A teacher must never show her/his stance.
Education is to convert us from idiots to more useful idiots :) Nothing, u gotta have a set of share buttons here. Your aphorisms are waiting to go viral.
thoughts provoking. i actually laughed when i first read it. wonder what those people who are crazy about education would think.
ReplyDeleteI'd never thought about it this way, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletethey are thinking.....I wish my parents would have seen it that way.
DeleteJust as dressing up is as much a prejudice as walking lint-free!
ReplyDeleteI always wonder why you don't have a share button here??? All such great and thought provoking aphorisms are worth sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree with you :)
ReplyDeleteI think this is basically true. People are born knowing how to think for themselves. If education were approached with this understanding, and taken with a grain of salt, maybe people would trust themselves to explore possibilities, instead of relying on what others tell them they should think.
ReplyDeleteEducation is the exchange of ignorance for a set of
ReplyDeleteprejudices by which we might feed ourselves and pass them on to our ignorant children...or so it seems to me.
Sorry Nothing...I just couldn't resist stealing this one!
Count Sneaky
This sentence sounds slightly familiar... indeed, I may have said something like it myself... maybe in another life.
ReplyDeleteUnless you lead them to explaining their point of views and listening to that of others and accepting and appreciating the differences. A teacher must never show her/his stance.
ReplyDeleteEducation is to convert us from idiots to more useful idiots :) Nothing, u gotta have a set of share buttons here. Your aphorisms are waiting to go viral.
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