The difference between School and Education

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCHOOL AND EDUCATION

Albert Einstein once said: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"

I bring before you today the revelation that makes for freedom: Giving you deep insight that culminates into true liberty forsaking the false, and it’s teachers. 

There has been a gross misconception and wrong understanding of "The School system And Education," this has always dealt a serious blow to many of us, to the majority of us uneducated while we claim to be educated due to some possession of some sort of qualifications from a couple of schools that we have forgotten what we have been taught.

If Albert Einstein, said: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." Then, there is a vast difference between"School And Education."

Initially, school was designed to train or prepare factory workers. That struck something in your right, thass good. 

The school classroom is a factory-model type: this was inspired by the approach The man Horace Mann, observed in Prussia, in the year 1843, which adequately prepared the mind and mentals of the Youths for the 20th century industrialized economy. That tells us the reason why every graduate seek a job and not inventions nor creative work, but seeking industries to lay down their lives like sacrifices after almost two decades attendance in schools, and they call it helping myself, how do you help yourself by sacrificing yourself to no just course. How many that died at work have been remembered on some particular days, or have monuments raised.

Schools have always taught us how to sit in a row like maize, to raise our hands when we have questions, no disorderly manners of disturbance whatsoever, which is also the same method applied in factories, plus you sign in and out, and even take excuses to pee.

School test different individuals via same means: Introverts, Bi-troverts/ambiverts and extroverts all placed on same scale and weighed. Those that seem underweight are labeled failures, and uneducated, while those that are over weight and within specified weight are labeled the good students. What a failure to start with by school it self while examination results are not supposed to determine our fate not our careers.

In my opinion school should be made a place where students are taught how to educate themselves to prepare them for the real world like they say.

The function of education is to inform oneself to think intensively and to think critically, creatively, to develop Intelligence and character. This is the aim of true education. Education is largely a function of life transforming information.

John F. Kennedy, said: "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." This advancement are never taught in schools, never!

Being informed about issues is what makes you educated in that field: Shakespeare was educated in the art of his writings, Bill Gate is educated in softwares, Oprah Winfrey is educated in the art of media shows, Richard Branson, about flight, Henry Ford, about Automobiles, Dr. Oyedepo, educated about the pulpit, Dangote, educated in the art of trading, and I’m being educated in the pure art of making the pen bleed.

Education is not about filling our heads with countless codes, key words, and formulas, but the ability to share life transforming informations and also put it to work transforming others and our environment by using them to solve problems.

Education has nothing to do with the accumulation of laurels nor some funny papers called certificates, last time I checked, this same man Albert Einstein, wasn’t certified, they asked him why, he there’s nobody to certify me. Education is about the accumulation of life transforming informations at every point in time. Such is education, and the joy of being educated is the ability to solve your own problems, and not seeking for your problems to be solved.

To have once been ignorant is not stupid in itself, but to remain ignorant is the stupidity of all: There is nothing wrong with not knowing, but it is wrong  to know that you don't know and not to do something about what you don't know.

Peace...

© Cyrus O. JESUNFEMI