Often people use formal education to measure or determine the level of knowledge a person has attained. Education is the key as they say and if you don't have formal education some people don't consider you knowledgeable enough. Some people even go to the extent of terming a none educated person illiterate or ignoramus
Come to think about this, education is not the right or proper way to test the level of someone's knowledge because formal education itself is limited, education system only tests one's ability to memorize things because tests and exams are written in school only test the student based on what they were thought, so they're expected to remember and duplicate what they had been taught in class, this is a kind of limitation in the part of the student because they can't go beyond a particular scope
Education is not what people think it is, it does not bring out the uniqueness in an individual because the real knowledge of a person is within them waiting to be explored, if formal education can't do that then it's not a real test of knowledge. Education only gives one a fake sense of knowing even though the knowledge is limited to a particular discipline depending on the course a person studies in school.
The greatest men in the world today are not men that merely learned how to read and write in school, they are men who forsook formal education and went into themselves to discover the true knowledge in them, the kind that can never be taught in any school
Think of men that changed the world through their vast knowledge, none of them was able to achieve greatness through formal education "alone", think of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, and the rest of them
It marvels me sometimes when people try to prove how wise or knowledgeable they are by trying to showcase their academic wits and all whatnot. True knowledge comes from within, it resides in every man and not in schools. That's why the ancient men, the stone age was able to come up with a lot Of great inventions even without passing through the walls of any school or formal education
People should stop priding so much on formal education and explore the true knowledge and wisdom in them. A lot of parents abandon their children to schools to impact knowledge ignoring the great potentials in the children. Formal education can only help one know the world, the environment and some things that play out to an extent, but the true knowledge is right within every human being.
Know this, true test and measure of knowledge is not in formal education. Discover it within
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