Education

Education today means that learning is not a once in a life-time venture, but instead is a process of continuous learning and re-learning as rapid change transcends each aspect of our daily lives.
Byron Pulsifer

Some of us go through school as though it were a horrible chore. We can't wait for summer vacation. We can't wait to graduate. We feel like there is no point learning all this stuff because either it is irrelevant to the job we think we'd like to get or to our life in general. We lose interest in any aspect of the world around us that doesn't have immediate practical value. In doing that, however, we lose interest in really living life. Life is nothing more than a process of learning as much as we can about ourselves and the world around us. But we will only do that if we are motivated.

But it is not enough to just be interested in the world around us in general. In addition to general knowledge, we need specialized knowledge too. We must learn whatever we need to learn in order to do our work effectively. And what you need to learn in order to do your work effectively is almost certainly not what you learned in school. The only thing we can rely on is change, and we can't deal with new situations relying on old knowledge. We must continually learn new things to keep up with new circumstances, both at home and on the job.

Education today means that learning is a process of continuous learning and re-learning to deal with continuous and rapid change. The most successful people are the ones who are continuously learning new things. How many non-fiction books have you read in the last week? How many documentaries have you seen in the last week? How many workshops or lectures have you gone to in the last month? The best answer would be "as many as possible".

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