The value of education?
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 8:50PM I came across this great quote today.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.— G. K. Chesterton
I used to tell my students the following (in jest of course!)
In my Bachelor's Degree I came to learn a little bit about quite a lot. Then in my Honours degree I read a little bit more about a little bit less. I my Masters degree I came to know quite a lot about very little… And, in my Doctoral studies I got to know everything about nothing!
Of course a good education is a worthy thing! But, the purpose of education is to gain knowledge, skills and values that can serve humanity. Some tend to think that the purpose of education is to become 'important', or to distinguish themselves from others.
Learn in order to serve. And, serve in order to learn. It makes your education much more useful to society. What do you think?
Reader Comments (3)
I think it's quite hard to determine the value of education, but what you have said open a great part about value of education. What I find that many people have described the value of education in many ways and you can't say any of them is wrong. I think the greatest value of education is to learn about yourself. It is also to serve the society. You can do this better only when you know about yourself. People often give importance to the education from college and university. But that is not important. This can be from school, family, internet and even from your nature. I like what you have said about your learning while acquiring degrees. What do you think?
In my opinion, Education is everything. You can create your own identify, civility and social reputation. A good teacher can create valuable assets towards the society. You can measure the positive results or overall impact but it is hard to determine the value of education.
The value of education can't be seen or measured, but it can be felt. You will feel it when you are with an educated person. It's easily distinguishable. What I mean by education is not merely a degree, it goes a lot deeper than that.