Iz you educated?

[Evee]

I guess I'm well-educated for the amount of time I've been alive so far. I don't know much, but I've been taught a fair amount in the time I've had to learn it.

 

[Gentoo]

Do you consider yourself well educated? Why or why not?

Well-educated in comparison to who/what?

 

[blackout]

Well-educated in comparison to who/what?

A boobie?

 

[whereismynotecard]

I'm trying to get learned a little gooder. It's hard for me to get learned, cuz I don't have a well attention span. I also don't got no motivation. Whats the point in getting learned so good? It's hard for me to understand skool. Skool helps me do math, and skool helps me read, but when I don't got no attention span to use, it doesn't do no good to even be at that learning establishment at all! How am I supposed to learn to reed and spel when my brain don't listen to what I'm geting learned about!? Sometimes I fall asleep while I'm getting learned too. My brain doesn't work as well when my awake is turned off. It might just be imposable for some peple to get learned I gues.

 

[gzusfrk]

sounds like your brain is full,you might not get any gooder.

 

[whereismynotecard]

I don't no if it is full tho. I think some stuff fell out of it last week. I'm trying to replace it with more stuff about math or reading, but I still don't got no attention span! Maybe my attention span is the part that fell out. Perhaps I should look for it. If I find it, I can have it reinstalled and then I can get learned more gooder again! It's been a long time since I had a good learning.

 

[Nothing]

Hanna, though your spelling makes one cringe, and your grammer is hideous, your articulation and concision are of the calibre that would turn even Shakespeare green with envy. Forget about math, it is a tale told by idiots that signifies nothing. You have a short attention span? We all do! Most of us are just not honest about it. What was I talking about? Oh well, doesn't matter. In all seriousness though, I believe humour is your gift. Did I just make a paradox? What's a paradox? Opps, sorry about that. What I know is that the crowd in here finds you hilarious in a charming way. Have you thought of trying stand up?

 

[Mr Spinkles]

Noam Chomsky says that the best educated people are self-educated. I agree with him.

Just wanted to throw that idea out there.

 

[Nothing]

And I agree with you Mr.Spinkles!

 

[zenzero]

Friend Ss,

Iz you educated?

What is education??
Only know the process of unlearning if any.

Love & rgds

 

[Diederick]

I'm reasonably well educated, or at least in the process of becoming so.

I'm a civil engineer and have recently started a study to become a teacher of English. The civil engineering thing never really was hard - apart from construction mechanics, perhaps - no struggle whatsoever. Consequently it wasn't much of a challenge, so I became rather passive at school. English is fine, on the other hand, but not my thing entirely. So I decided to become a nurse. I'm already a medic for the Red Cross, and I've absolutely loved every second of it since I started. Hence I might as well go pro.

I consider being a nurse higher education. Civil engineering is not that great, but still a higher level than 50% of the Dutch could handle.

 

[Smoke]

Noam Chomsky says that the best educated people are self-educated. I agree with him.

Robertson Davies said that all education is bad which is not self-education, and Howard Zinn said that in graduate school you get the same point of view as in elementary school, but with footnotes.

Still, with self-education you really have to watch out for the biases and blind spots of your teacher.

 

[Sunstone]

Noam Chomsky says that the best educated people are self-educated. I agree with him.

A guided education has it's virtues too. For instance, good teachers will introduce you to both the history of ideas in a field and to all the major ideas in a field. But I agree that self education is probably overall best -- at the very least, for motivation. Nothing gets you to bounce out of bed in the morning better than pursuing your interests wherever they lead.

 

[Diederick]

Indeed, self-education may seem good, but you can't be sure it is based on what is true. Being out in the world and influenced by many people, your shot at being right is much better than if you've studied alone.

Information given by people is not necessarily biased, especially not when it is coming from someone who teaches a classroom full of other people. Modern education is one of the marvels of our civilization, it has earned some respect; I'd say.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

Indeed, self-education may seem good, but you can't be sure it is based on what is true. Being out in the world and influenced by many people, your shot at being right is much better than if you've studied alone.

Information given by people is not necessarily biased, especially not when it is coming from someone who teaches a classroom full of other people. Modern education is one of the marvels of our civilization, it has earned some respect; I'd say.

Indeed it does deserve respect. :yes: We are all standing on the backs of titans.

 

[MSizer]

Anthropology was a huge eye opener for me. All my life I had doubted (severly) what I had learned about souls and god, and when I took an anthropology class in university and learned how similar other primates are to humans, I was stunned at how obvious it is that there is nothing to debate. We're primates, and if chimps don't have souls, nor do we. Then I went to college to take engineering and I learned the incredible power of math and physics when it comes to making predictions about the material world (the only world IMO). Now I'm working at rediscovering philosophy again, this time with a more rounded view of things since I have seen from a scientific mindset.