Play Wisely Not By Education Alone
There are lot of graduates year in and out, lot of educated people but years later there are little or nothing to write home about, similarly there are many people not educated and still nothing to write home about, so both being educated and uneducated isn't a sure road to success, rather it's the ability to know what to do, how to do it, when to do it and with whom to do it, simply put the application of wisdom is a sure route to success. Only that education helps us in gaining more wisdom, so it's a reason one should prefer to be educated than not.
Beinh educated however should not be mistaken for being wise. I like to show these two areas being totally different. You can be educated and not wise, but you can't be wise and not be educated. The final aim however is not in being educated but rather in being wise, simply because wisdom is the application of acquired knowledge into real life settings. So if you're educated, it's better when you can apply what you have learnt overtime to make it work for you, but when you just learn and learn and learn without any application of it to the betterment of your life, then I guess you're only educated not wise.
I don't think education is limited to a school system alone as well as I don't think schools has to deal with young children going to a building to learn mathematics, physics, and more other subjects, because education has been described simply as a process of passing across a needed knowledge, yes most times it's a school or college setting, but also knowledge is being passed in a workshop, knowledge is been passed in a rehearsal ground, knowledge is being passed as an apprentice for a bookstore, there are so many ways of passing knowledge and so in that case they all are education. Some educated by books which should be our first and basis knowledge, some by apprenticeship, Some via working for a firm.
However it's never enough to only be educated and educated alone, if you aren't applying what you've learnt, then I guess that's not wisdom. Education in every sense is supposed to help us become wise, cause its only via wisdom that we get to enjoy the benefits attached to being educated. For example, a graduate going for an interview would most likely be asked some question and the response to the question would determine if such person is qualified for the job or not, remembered i said a graduate. But being a graduate doesn't assure him the job already.
Already he or she I educated, you can't take back the fact they he went to school, or erase the fact that she took her examination and passed, as long as he or she is a graduate, then they were educated, however they still need to prove that they can apply what they were taught am make it work in reality, these is the essence of the interview. For some jobs an illiterate with no formal education but can do the work could be preferred to an educated person who is confused on what to do. Oh yes both of them are educated in their various ways, so may the best man get the job.
I wonder how people take completing your schooling program as already successful and forget to know that even a dull person would also graduate, its no longer a assurance to get a PhD or get a masters and feeling like you're the best in the world, we still want to know are you now truly wise as your degree proclaim you to be. For you to attain that level of degree owning to your name, it's expected that you're wise already and you're more than capable of applying it on a real life settings, more reasons why projects are done, why field works are encouraged. So we look past our Education and ask sincerely are we wise.
So no one gets me wrong, education is one of the best gifts our world has currently, it has sharpened the minds of the young stars so that they can think and see broader than what they think, now their brains are getting more developed and that is the exercise the brain gets. See how people have gotten crazy sense of humours, our sarcasm, our mode of words construction, our dictions and ease of communication. All these and more you'll agree to be a greatly aided by education.
Education has brought a possibility for everyone to communicate, you could be in your country and learn the language and culture of another country, we learn more by dedicating ourselves to the process. Education has created one of the strongest friendship and connection the world has ever seen, see old time classmates being buddies to old age, cause via that process of education where many people share the single room, a great bonding was taking place invisibly. Education we can't throw away, oh yes our coming children too have to be educated, but much more than that they've got to be wise.
Firstly wisdom is a function of the brain, so if the brain is malfunctioning you'll really need a supernatural push in other to make wise choices. So next up, as we learn and learn lets look for ways to apply it on realty, as that's what's important, the application of what has been learnt overtime into the physical. You've been taught a lot about business, when do you start up yours. You've learnt a lot about car mechanics, don't you think its time to start working for yourself. Its good we learn, it's good we are educated, but it better we are wise, wise enough to put all what we've learnt into profitable use.
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I especially like your broad definition of education, that it is not only schools. As a matter of fact, schools can also be dangerously crippling of the intellect, since they are often used as a tool for indoctrination, not to say complete brainwashing and "reprogramming" of the mind. I don't say that all schools are like that, but it is what political leaders want them to be.