IN PRAISE OF EDUCATION

Yes, I know it's a serious subject, even an important one. And yet, we talk about it all the time, but in the end, it's not well respected.
I found this sentence that appealed to me, and it suggested that I praise it.
Here it is: "If it occurred to us that education, the learning of the values of an entire generation that we are invited to rethink and take up again , perhaps then we would be more inclined to respect this word."

Every parent, I think, today believes that their children's education is paramount, and so they have to make sure they get it, and for that they will make sacrifices. We all know how much college costs in the US.

 

As far back as ancient Greece, Xenophon said of Menon that, for him, not being capable of everything was infallible proof of a lack of education. We must believe in the idea that, with a more advanced education, man will be more mature, more tolerant and less unkind to others. This is not entirely untrue.
It's even said that our human brain is developed and cultivated by the education we receive.

In other words, it's in teaching children that the story of the transmission of knowledge is really played out. Finally, I believe that education must be conceived as a continuous reconstruction of experience, that the process and the goal of education are one and the same.

The fact remains that man's education begins at birth: before he can speak or understand, he learns. Experience precedes instruction; by the time he recognizes his nurse, he has learned a great deal. It's true that we're born weak, we need help, we lack the reason we have at birth. To become human, we need the gift of education. This education comes to us from nature, from men or from things.  

In Emile, Jean Jacques Rousseau adds these words: "The inner growth of our organs and faculties is the education of nature, the use we learn to make of this growth is the education of man, what we obtain by the experience of our environment is the education of things.

In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah HARARI teaches us that "And finally, that education leads to peace, it leads to democracy. Steven Pinker, in "Enlightenment Now, announced that today, education is compulsory in most countries, and is recognized as a fundamental human right by the 170 members of the United Nations Assembly who signed the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

How can we fail to appreciate what the world is doing to promote education?
The same Steven Pinker has also said that the first countries to escape universal poverty in the 10th century, and the countries that have developed since, are those that have educated their children most intensively.

Einstein disparaged Thomas Edison's vision of education: for him, the value of a university education lay not in learning a lot of facts, but in training the mind to think. I much prefer Alexander Zolzhenitsyn's words: "Intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. A poorly educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas a truly profound education engenders humility".

In conclusion, I'd like to include that magic word from Nelson Mandela: "Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world". Everyone, starting with our governments, should remember this if we really want to change the world. Let's remember Victor Hugo: "Education is given by the family; instruction is owed by the state.

I'll end this Document with a few proverbs I've found here and there: An African proverb says: "Education is expensive, but ignorance is even more expensive. William Shakespeare says: "Education is the acquisition of youth by knowledge," and the last word goes to Einstein: "Education consists in understanding the essentials of what has been discovered by the generations that have gone before us.