sonata.

I can honestly tell you that growing up I didn't question many things. I just went with the flow and took what life gave me.

But now, I can't help but question some things.

Like what people perceive education to be.

Education:

the knowledge and development resulting from an educational process [Merriam-Webster's dictionary]

the process of teaching or learning in school or college; or the knowledge you get from this [Cambridge dictionary]

Does anything in there even suggest that the meaning of education is

something you need to make more money so that you can have more power in this world?

or

a tool to make you feel that you are a class above those who don't have the same education as you?

In fact, the word education comes from the Latin term 'educere' which means to bring out. Basically to bring forth the potential that a person has within. Not to force knowledge onto people.

Yet the true meaning of education has been lost over the years. Now, it's just a numbers game. How many A's can you get, how much money can you earn after this.

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shipwreck.

If you watched the video I posted up earlier titled "Do Schools Kill Creativity?", you would have heard the guy say that Maths and Language are at the top of the education "food chain". With the arts like Dance, Literature, Music at the bottom.

Why is it that way? Who on earth decided that there should be a hierarchy system when it comes to learning?

Shouldn't education be about gaining knowledge as a whole. And not only about one particular field. Yes I know that through specialisation we can improve by leaps and bounds in that particular field. But then wouldn't you be using one side of your brain much more than the other.

I think it's pretty unfair that Maths is considered to be the most important subject. And I can't stand how it is practically forced upon all students. Every single student would at one point or another have to study Maths while only those who want to will take up Lit. How many students study Literature? Very few no? I'm not saying that Literature is better than Maths, but rather that all students should be asked to study Lit at one point in their lives. Then maybe no one would have the opinion that studying Humanities is a waste of time. And they'd probably realise that Lit is not only about reading books. That it is a REALLY difficult subject.

Though it may be generalising, I'm pretty sure a lot of those not in Humanities would say that we Humanities students are wasting our time. That these artsy subjects don't contribute to the evolvement of the human race. After all, to build technology, Maths is definitely more important.

But then, what's so great about evolving anyway? Maybe it'll make life easier for those of us born into average or above average families that can afford to make life relatively comfortable. Yet it's because of evolution that the earth is dying cause all people do is exploit nature to make more money.

Gah. My thoughts seemed so all over the place.

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