Friday 21 December 2012

Week 11



Read the presentation: Education as a key to achieving stability in life
 and comment on it here. Discuss it with the course participants.

11 comments:

  1. My opinion on education is that children should begin their education when they're 8 years old. They should learn only the subjects which were chosen by their parents, it would help them to discover their hobbies and find out what they'd like to do in the future. Also, it would definitely ensure easy transition from childhood to adulthood and would aid them when dealing with problems of being an adult.

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  2. In my opinion education is very important for every human. No matter who you are: the cleaner, banker, salesman or engineer, everyone need to have fundamental knowledge in many areas. With more wisdom comes more resourcefulness. Of course not everyone need to know everything. Sometimes people learn slower or need more motivation. There are known cases, when evil smart persons use not educated people, robe them etc. We need to remember during discussion, when smart arguments ends, comes violence. So knowledge and education is not only important to gain money, but to protect ourself.

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  3. First of all, I would like to separate education from intellectual dovelopment. They are not the same. Most of people tret education as a mean to have a job opportunity in the future, or because of inviorment pressure (high education equals more prestige). They are studying about things that dont really interest them, they just want the phd paper.
    Another thing is gaining knowledge in spheres tha you are interested in, and that is something you can obtain without shool. Our educational system is defective, and I think it constrict intelectual improvement, it rather make people way of thinking uniform.

    My philosophy is, dont force your self to do something that you dont like. Lot of people tret knowledge as something that they can exchange for money, I dont. I'm adherent doing things for self improvement and satisfaction.

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  4. I believe that the education is essential in one's life. It is important to be a well-educated person in order to have a good life. Yet, I am not only talking about the academic education. To be educated does not mean you need to graduate from Harvard or Yale. There is more to education that only the book knowledge. An educated person is someone who possesses not only the degree, but also has manners and knows how to act in different situations. It is a combination of factors that make someone an educated person. Also having a fancy title next to one's name does not guarantee a life success. It is about being smart, crafty, and making the most of own potential.

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  5. In my opinion education is crucial for us to understand the world. It should not be regarded as beneficial in terms of job or money but it should be perceived as something that is doubtlessly necessary to be conscious of how the world works, from where some objects come, why people react in the way they react. These are subjects that need our general knowledge which is usually provided in school. Unfortunately, we can already observe the process of facilitating everything and people getting used to comfort i.e. being lazy. What is more, I think that education is also crucial for those who want to be respected by the society because, in today’s world, the pressure is so big that it is impossible to be regarded as an up-market person without being able to show their cognition. Furthermore, regardless of who we want to be in the future, we need to acquire as much knowledge as possible, especially while we are young, so that we could have a choice when it comes to deciding on our future profession. However, there are some people such as those mentioned in the presentation who do not need to be well-educated in order to achieve their dreams and just be happy. Concluding, I think that general education is something that we need but the education which is more detailed is only for those who want to acquire it in order to develop their passions or be able to work in the profession of their dreams.

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  6. Hey, education has many different values on a different level. As s7719 said, i think also that there is a strong cultural aspect for children. Someone has ever said that we are not born as a human, we are born as a wild child and then our parents, school, churches and other people will make us human. Let's point out, that i.e Eminem dropped not so early from the school so he had his time to grow up less or more. Also i think school nowadays is a need, so we are going to school just to feed the system, not to learn and each one of these mentioned guys are example that hard work and passion is a key to become a succesfull person, but we have to remember that there are always 2 types of success going on at the same time, the success that people see and the success that's going on in the person. Everyone of us dream of a big success, but there is always a drama behind it and i guess we all know that. Finally in my opinion, school is a need at the early stadium of our development, maybe at the age 15, we should be more independent to have a choice on what we want to do or what we like more or less.

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  7. In my opinion, every society can be divided into three categories:
    1 - a very capable person even brilliant, which show their abilities in school or in college. They are often really interesting big success in business or science. From my observation of some of them end up learning at an early stage, other parallel passions and develop their idea and continued education. Regardless of whether they graduated or not successful professional. It is characterized by its strong personality and a desire to pursue its objectives.
    2 - people who are capable but not brilliant. Work and study, and in most cases are successful in work, studies and work gives them the opportunity to develop further and bring their experience to skillfully used paying off in the future.
    3 - those that do and do not want to believe that their education is not needed to achieve happiness. Such people believe that work is needed to meet their daily needs. Do not try to further invest in self-development.

    Depending on the type of personality and aptitude can not give one answer or studies are needed to be successful or not.

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  8. Interesting topic.
    An example of these people shows how far you can take in life to succeed. I respect Eminem as well as the Klitschko brothers for their attitude in relation to what they do in life and how they relate to this, but that's not the question. You have to ask ourselves what means to me stability in life. For some, gaining further degrees is the main goal for others to create and share their passion. Stability in life for me is the ability to determine the direction in which we want to go out there and be happy. Everyone can have their own idea of ​​himself, in this way, people are interesting to others and becoming their designs.

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  9. I think that for us, who are on 7th term of our school education is important. Of course mostly because of "paper" which we will get when we finish, because nowadays graduation is more important than knowledge, but this is changing. As we know it isn't necessary to graduate from university to have big company and huge achivements.

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  10. In my science today plays a very important role. Today, without education as an ordinary man in the street who do not have any talent so that one could make money teaching is crucial. Thanks to higher education, we can get a better job and thus improve his life because the statute of work today, no money, of course, are not the most important, however, to live with dignity are needed.

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  11. I believe that education is a very important part of everyone's life. At school we not only gain knowledge, but also other important skills; we learn how to work in a group, we spend time with our peers and we gain experience. I believe that higher education is also very important. Nowadays, if you want to get a good and well-paid job you must finish at least Bachelor or Master degree. Of course there are some exceptions, for example, this ones described by the author in this article. Sometimes, it happens that we do not work with or even close to our specialization. The best examples for me are my parents, who graduated from Academy of Physical Education (in polish AWF) and they both work in different field now. My dad even did his PhD at the Academy of Physical Education and now he works outside of his specialization; he is a businessman.

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