What Really Was Education?

Books, author education as “desired behavioral change in person”. Reduced to just behavior; It is not written much about which behaviors are missing, who and for what questions are missing, and who will decide this. Therefore, although it is a one-sided and memorized acceptance, everyone perceives a change in their minds due to its ambiguous content and creates its own content.

Alfred Adler, who is considered to be the founder of individual psychology, defined the individual as work, spouse and social environment.

( friend) says that there are 3 basic problems in life and says that a happy person has to deal with these three basic problems. Different thinkers have placed different burdens and responsibilities on us by saying that people create themselves, add meaning to their lives and get to know themselves.

Life is complex for a person, it is difficult, bumpy and just as problematic. Man has to deal with so many things that although he knows that there is death in the end in this journey, he still has to do a lot and tries to overcome life's difficulties instead of surrendering to it.

It is difficult to say that a thinker is wrong when he says "life is not a struggle, the struggle itself is life". In this context, to the question of what is education; in addition to surviving the difficulties of life, shaping the person, reaching his own higher existence, creating civilizations; In short, it can be defined as developing problem solving skills.

In addition to the problem of work, spouse and friends, people also have the responsibility to become conscious of existence and to carry themselves to the highest level. He has not to defeat life, but to create a life in harmony with it and to lead himself to a healthy, successful and happy self.

Schools do not only transmit knowledge, they should also prepare the person for life. People cannot create themselves with memorized notes. Teachers have also turned into a memorization mechanism. There are many professionals who graduated from all kinds of so-called good and expensive schools, but could not manage themselves and could not solve their business, spouse and friend problems. The majority of people are unhappy, unsuccessful and unhealthy. Not being sick is not being healthy.

Unfortunately, millions of people who are married, have a job and have acquaintances are not very happy and have not been able to solve the basic problems in life. So, what good is schools or education? If a person is not healthy, successful and happy; If one cannot find a solution to the problems brought by life, is it not necessary to question the education itself? Those who talk about education, what education are they giving? Can a strong country and society be created from young minds squeezed between a test and a toast? How can a society emerge from people who cannot have fun, who are unhappy, angry, resentful, dishonored, disgraced or marginalized?

While there is an African proverb that says "An unloved child burns a village", an education without love and unable to find a solution to life's problems is not education. There is a rapid need for a new idea that will reconsider the phenomenon of education and find solutions to fundamental problems.