People don't really get an education in school. They may learn to learn.
Someone a long time ago equated level of knowledge to the sphere of light
produced by a lantern in the dark. If you get a bigger lantern you see a
bigger sphere of light....or you see a the inside of a larger sphere of
darkness. The more you learn, the more you realize how much more there is to
learn that you don't already know. The formal education is just the
beginning. /jim
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On 9 Feb 2003 at 11:11, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> The world seems to be divided into two camps, those who think that
> college should be a trade school and those who think that it is a place
> to get an education. They are not the same thing, nor do they have the
> same value.
>
In Robert M Pirsig's "ZEN and the art of motorcycle maintenance"
is a professor's statement: "Eliminate the whole degree-and-grading
system and you get real education". Two pages further a student's
statement: "Of course you can't eliminate the degree and grading
system. After all, that's what we're here for." Subsequently Pirsig
argues the case for advancing from a grade motivated person to a
knowledge motivated person. Faszinating reading.
Now, isn't the knowledge motivation one of the reasons for taking
part in - for example - this OM-list?
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