Falling into Oblivion :: Education Learning Schooling Papers

Falling into Oblivion command is the subsistledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process. Education is the field of study concerned with the pedagogy of command and learning. The dictionary provides elemental definitions of education. We are given a straightforward meaning of what education is, hardly according to B.F. Skinner, a renowned psychologist, education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. Ever since I was a little girl, I was constantly reminded how important education is. I went to a Catholic school, and my entire elementary education was spent with nuns, teaching out of the Bible. I soon realized, these nuns were teaching me about people who werent officially educated. These people never went to a structured school, like the one I felt I was being forced to attend. They never had to get up early in the morning, wear uniforms, take the bus to school, had classmates, and they were never told by different teachers what to do. The ir parents taught them at home, and they just heard stories in the streets, and in the market place from their elders. No accommodates existed, and I wasnt quite sure if they had anything to trace their education tooshie to. Who, all of a sudden, decided to teach their young, and to turn that idea into a universal tradition, to keep it going for generations? I sat there and I couldnt help but wonder why these nuns were teaching me about people, whom I saw, as uneducated. I felt the entire biblical course was irrelevant. I thought I was in school to learn, so what could I mayhap learn from people who didnt even know what a book was, or who probably couldnt read from a book even if they did? Who made the decision what we should learn or if we should even learn at all? wherefore have we stressed the importance of education historically? Educations purpose is to convert an empty mind with an open one. Knowledge is first acquired from open-mindedness. As oft as we might want to, w e cant filter through what is being taught to us. We cant exact the things we want to learn and claim we are educated. We cant read a book written by a black author and not know what his background is or have some knowledge and understanding of the floor of his people.