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Saturday, July 03, 2004

A Little Too Long and A Short Expose on Education

Looks like I haven't been updating my blog for too long. I just recently completed two weeks worth of intensive classes, and had the time of my life during the whole time. Both weeks were filled with the runnings of two course subjects which, needless to say, formed an inspiring point within the development of my education and lifecourse as well. I always found that the best form of education were those crucial elements which made up a holistic representation of your personality, morale and values. Education and its interpretive meaning have been a contested debate within public policy, as educators, governments and parents (with their respective opponents, children) debate over the merits and benefits of education, constructing it in a discourse that seems to suggest it is a superimposed entity succumbing to our interpolation. That seems to me to be a pitiful excuse and misgiven notion to recommend an authoritarian-style of education, which constraints and restricts the creative explorative talents children should utilize. Instead, education is a discourse fundamental to all aspects of human life and to the human condition, not just enforced in schools and institutions but in everyday interactions and social life. How we treat education, how we define and phrase it, and most crucially how we represent it in our psyche will direct the rewards bestown on us in life.

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