Misconceptions about Education

School is where we spend our time from childhood to adulthood and almost 5% of our life is consumed. Huge number of people concretely assure their life to become more successful if they have undergone learning inside the school. So they unobviously agree that school is a crucial institution ever invented by humans.

I would not wish for anything about returning back the time for disengaging myself in school. In fact, I am glad I met friends inside the school whose influences to me pay much the worth of coming in and out of the premises. These influences are not just typical influences may acquire by friends inside a circle. It is good for everybody to adapt things that would surely change views and opinions, and that what was happened to me.

For so many years, people are seriously sending their sons and daughter in schools (public/private) equipped with the anticipation of their successful schooling at the end of the school year. How lucky are those who receive lots of merits in gold, silver, and bronze with special awards depicted by additional medals made of metals. School is really a place where we encounter different opinions. Some of them may do not accord to what you know. Although my notions are surely not the same with you, I must disperse them even if they kill many of the students’ enthusiasm (just if so).

Education is usually incorporated with school and is commonly tied with being able to surmount the years-long schooling, it is to graduate. Education is to finish course with title, a description which is the stereotypical knowledge of everybody about education. Educating means imparting (or providing) knowledge (Encarta Dictionaries, 2009), education therefore means the acquired knowledge or simply the knowledge you earned from studying enumerable lessons given by the professors. Now if your name was unfortunately not included in the “List of Graduates,” does it mean you did not obtain knowledge, does it mean you do not have the education despite of knowing that you have gained better understanding? Of course not, isn’t it? But why is it many are longing to march during the graduation ceremony? Because of several reasons. First, because many of us do not know the real meaning of education. Second, many are obsessed with the feeling of procuring degree. Third, they want the popularity. Fourth, actually…there were just two reasons: the First and Second.

Spending 5% of your life is a very long time, it is equal to 17 to 20 years or even longer. Imagine the 2 decades of burning mid-night oil, enduring pressures brought by the usual upcoming mid-term and final exams in major subjects plus the tensions imparted by the minor subjects, the fright we felt every time we meet a terror lecturer, the sudden late announcements of terrifying scheduled exams and requirements’ due dates, yet many withstand these hardships only for acquiring degree-attesting-papers. What possibly be the reason why many are obsessed in grasping these documents? Could it be the PPP or Prestige, Power, and Popularity? 

The fourth paragraph of this article tells you that education is about gaining understanding to comprehend what reigns the earth. It is about knowing things. It is about obtaining better knowledge in dealing with the society. It is about knowing agreeable from disagreeable substances. It is about having wise explanations regarding everything. Education then does not directly point to completing a certain course in a tertiary level. Recognition, plaques, credentials, medals, or anything do not fully define your education, because education chiefly and emphatically pertains to your gained knowledge and not to your gained degree. It may sound strange to you but the essence of this thing can be explained logically. Putting too much and deep description about education may complicate your life thereafter. It is quite important to seek the true meaning of education to keep ourselves away from cowardice as the consequence of misconception.

What if you stopped going to school, or you did not graduate, how your life would go? Practically speaking, we need to have better “acquired knowledge” in order to get hired in a company if ever we apply. Since they only hire applicants completed certain course, for sure your application appointment be eventually dismissed instantly. I am telling you, many prefer to comply nowadays with worldly qualifications. It actually render us the denotation that many were simultaneously captured by the orders of these unobvious controllers of human life. I featured this perception in my blog entitled Human Government: Keeps Human Life Tougher, please check that out to read the entire blog.

How do you often think or do similarly the things revealed by this blog?  Education does so much in human life, either it lessens or graves men daily living. Aggregating all the proofs, education that exists alongside with worldly deeds makes life unstable and full of uncertainties. It is mind-puzzling how to fix the prevalent incorrect belief of mankind through written ones, this is just a mere blog to others.

I constructed this blog because that is how I perceive the world as implied by the title of this blog site. The notions you read in this blog are perceptions of the content contributor. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below and I am willing to answer you back (if I have free time).