What is Education? How do we understand it?
Education is simply a knowledge impacted or acquired, either from outsource or from inward. Being educated means you've gone through some stages of learning which now has impact on your way of life, the way you think, relate and socialize. The importance of education, however can never be emphasize, its one of the fundamental that makes us and keep us living. No having any iota of being educated can be related to being inwardly dead, only the dead stops acquiring for education.
However, if I may ask you, what's a perfect example of education? We all say schooling, Western education, that's what we are made to believe in, that's what the schools taught us, making us blind to other and true forms of education . education can be likened to lessons learn either in hard or enjoyable way, but if asked which one of it gives more benefits? We say the hard way.
Practically, there are a lot forms of education that can be acquired, which we know but we aren't seeing it as education because the society do not talk about it nor take it serious as forms of education, and we believe once we have done schooling, we've acquired the best form of education life can give.
Home Education; This is a life time education that stays with us till lifetime, so many times home training works where schooling fails. Majority of us if not all, lived under parent, so we went through a thorough training that our parents feels will help us in the areas of our lives.
Traditional Education; this is a form of education that requires us knowing about our culture, heritage, language, lifestyle. We fail to more on this, we feel its not necessary while it very important, we inculcate other people and country culture into our offsprings thinking we want them to level and measure up with the outside world. We fail to educate them on their heritage, what they need to know our source and where we hailed from, some may even hinder them from speaking their local language thinking of what society feels.
School Education; this is a form of education being thought in a wetern manner and its always believed without this no one is going anywhere, especially in growth. From our early age, we have been made to understand no school, no success, how bad? We dressed up daily, go to this institution to acquire the layed down knowledge the we carry it on or pass it to another, a lot of subjects is being thought, ranging from Maths to language,physics,chemistry,biology,commerce,economics to mention few, we keep acquiring till we get to a stage we ask ourselves where do we put our very own traditional education.
Vocational Education; this is a type of institution where skills and practical hand work are being thought. There are various types of vocational works out there that we can acquire as a form of education, which may not even hinder getting us successful, to mention few, we have Tailoring, automobile technicians, carpentry works, welding works, hair plaiting, craft making, sculptor, etc. Now the world is waking to this form of education, because schooling is failing us all, people just feel its good to acquire western education because it widens ones knowledge and open eyes, so it can always be merged or practice paripasu with the vocational education.
Life Education; this is a form of education acquired through either self assessment or taught by those who have experienced or gone through great trials before. So many times, its the trials of life that gives us experience and perspective of how life is really, which in turn wakes us up. Like they say, life is not like a bed of roses, it takes sweat, perseverance,faith and patience to acquire this form of education. This is one of the most important education every one must be acquainted with, it brushes and opens ones mind to reality, because wirhout it, living life may seems unbreakable.
You know any other forms? Pls comment, let's share!
It is important to learn how to learn. Learning is an active process. Everyone learns differently. Everyone has to find his own way. Once you have learned to learn, you can learn anything.