Wednesday, January 8, 2020

taught about education


 Wendell Berry said :The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

2 comments:

  1. I totally agree with his quotation , since it is a reality trouble we face in Arab almost all Arab countries where education is about memorizing too many information that will be gone once the student leave the school without learning and teaching the bare concept of each material where enables him to discover his likes , dislikes , and skills , where enables him to differentiate his priorities and put what he really wants at the top of list.

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