From the time an individual is born to the day that he dies
learning and the acquirement of knowledge is paramount. Having an education
whether it is from a school, life, a friend or a family member should be
empowering in nature. Many people classify education as the certificate,
degree, diploma that you get from a learning institution but I see education as
a body of knowledge that you obtain that can set the stage for your advancement
throughout life. Many have the certificates, degree, diplomas but are not
advancing while others who don’t have this level of achievement are
progressing.
Now do not get me wrong. I am all for people getting their
certificates, degrees and diplomas but I am more concerned with how we apply
what we have learnt to our environment. People having such certificates may asked to apply for jobs, it is worthy at some extent but they needs to move towards entrepreneurship to solve global problems. So what really is
this thing we call education? is it just getting a certificate, diploma, or
degree or is it the ability to possess a body of knowledge that can solve
problems and derive solutions for our world?
The word Education that many of us use today is what a lot of
us are referring to as having a teacher or lecturer speak to us and we
regurgitate what was said in order to pass the necessary tests to obtain that
certificate, degree or diploma. However, the education that I know and believe
that will put in motion the betterment of our world is the one where we challenge
ideologies, philosophies and concepts coming to us in the lectures and
textbooks and how best we can extrapolate their essence and apply them to our modern day societies.
Our Education should be built on being revolutionary from
designing technology, to how we handle and manage medical care, to how we grow
food, and to how we deploy research methodologies and NOT mere regurgitation from a textbook or lecture.
Lyn-Marie Blackman
Bridgetown, Barbados
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