Just to add to Fred White's thought:
"I learned more in 4 days at college than most people learned in 4 years
which is not everybody should go to college for 4 years." Bob Dylan in a
Rolling Stone interview circa 1969.

I may be wrong, the chances are I am, but the way I see it education and
schooling are two different things. Schooling is about all those "have tos"
that make us "good citizens", "responsible adults" and "employable."
Schooling stresses imparting facts. Schooling is about keeping  the student
on track. Schooling is about molding young minds.

Education is about learning where to get the answers to the questions that
burn in your intellect or soul if you will. Education is about learning how
to organize those answers into cogent ideas. Education is about using ideas
to lead you to new knowledge, new ideas, new questions, new answers.
Education stresses expansion of the mind. Education is about letting the
young mind grow beyond the molds created by intellectual limitations of the
educator or prejudices of previous generations.

We need to  teach our young and young of mind to actively seek knowledge.
Babies are born curious. Children learn apathy. If they can learn to break
their nature then they can surely be guided to utilize their innate desire
for knowledge. It is never to late to start.


The opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of my
employer.
Yosef Rosenblatt

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