Tuesday, April 22, 2008

What is education?

What is education? First of all, before starting to write about education, we need to find an appropriate definition that will help us to understand a little bit more this term. The website brainyquote.com defines education as “The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired”. Now that we have read an accurate definition of education we can began to explain how and why education has such relevance in our day by day lives.
If we go back in time and start to look when are your first taught in life, we agree that parents are the first teachers. They are the ones who tell you what is right and wrong. Once they have taught you the basic things, you began to learn by personal experience, most of the time by your own mistakes. Is in this point when you really learn to do or don’t do some actions, because in every bad action there is going to be a consequence that somehow will affect you, and not in the good way. For example in the film Dead Poet Society, Neil Perry ends out of his college because he was involved in this little group called Dead Poet Society and his dad did not like that. Is one of many examples that we can have about how the human really learn about bad experience. But there is one more method of learning that could the most important one, called school. During all your school years, which are around 13, you learn the basic things that are going to be fundamental during your whole life. School becomes your second home and even if you agree with that, is where most of your knowledge is learned.
In conclusion education is a constant action where the human keep learning from different aspect in their life, it doesn’t matter if is right or wrong, the process of learning new things will always be active, because is something that you can’t stop doing it.



Works Cited

  • brainyquote.com
  • The Dead Poets Society. Dir. Peter Weir. Perf. Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, and Ethan Hawke. DVD. Touchstone Pictures, 1989.

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