"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." - F. A. Hayek
The supposed purpose of education, as marketed by the education industry, is career advancement, higher pay, and empowering a college graduate's job search. This presents the current personal importance of education as determined by a few studies performed back when bureaucratic machines were still humming. We will discuss the social importance of education later. Educational importance before the industrial revolution was tied to:
1) learning,
2) preparation for wise leadership and personal achievement,
3) opening your mind to new ideas. What about today? More importantly, what about tomorrow?The bureaucratic epoch is ending.You must now determine what will be most important, to you and your children, in the future.
Contents at a Glance
Education should open the mind.
read the book
All education is self education.
BFU is changing education and society.
Education quotes on the current social importance of education
Education is becoming a fungible commodity.
more...
Contents at a Glance
Education should open the mind.
read the book
All education is self education.
BFU is changing education and society.
Education quotes on the current social importance of education
Education is becoming a fungible commodity.
Micro learning may be the future of education.
What really matters
less...
Explore related pagesAlternative Learning Systems & Experimental Education Renaissance Education - how to study and apply classical literature Bastiat Free University - rediscover the pleasures of self-directed learning College Degree Substitutes - don't be a bureaucrat The internet can be an ugly business. Building A Successful Business Using The Internet
Education should open the mind.
Effective learning involves creating and solving our own errors. Go ahead; over-step, stretch, get too enthusiastic. When you make those mistakes common to all high achievers, use them to learn. Then enthusiastically attack again.
Pry open your mind, don't let your education rust it shut. Learn to think, not to follow. combine your learning with action, letting unavoidable errors impel you to seek greater understanding.Coco Channel is quoted as saying "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." As the bureaucratic age winds down college degrees as requirements are replaceable; independent thinkers and visionary leaders are not. Cultivating a love of learning is becoming imperative for success."I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: 'Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?" - Leonardo da VinciChurchill has been attributed with a statement to the effect that "to be young and not be a liberal is to have no heart, to be older and not be a conservative is to have no brain". If this is a mostly true insight than why must institutions of higher learning spend so much energy shouting long and hard on ideas that students will probably embrace naturally. If you are a college student, ignore the repetitious bombast, seek out convincing counter arguments. Then make up your own mind. Open your eyes and observe even as your ears are assaulted."If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam ChomskyWe need that freedom of expression if we are to discover truth.Do not become one sided and two dimensional. Question those of us with educational authority; look past our emotion laden tirades to find our agenda. Expand your thoughts to understand all views that pertain to an issue. "We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us" - Virginia Satir We each learn differentlyShouldn't education be forced to discern and approach individual needs? The bureaucratic answer is consistent - "we need more teachers, and smaller class sizes." If each student is taught the same curriculum, regardless of their skills, desires, temperament, and abilities; class size is immaterial (except as it grows the power and wealth of protected education industries and unions).In commerce the day of one size fits many is just about over, replaced by self tailored solutions. In education everyone must fit in our size is still the rule. It is your life you are developing. Your life, and the lives of your children, will prosper to the degree you can openly structure self-directed learning and keep it pleasurable.Software is available that tailors itself to the needs and abilities of an individual student. Better and more appropriate learning is available online than in classrooms. Real change violates industrial learning traditions and the desires of entrenched educational bureaucracies, so powerful tools are played with only in the margins.Computers are pack saddled to existing educational models in an inefficient pretense. At common schools most technologies are used like hitching horses to a sports car. The horse drawn car does not compare favorably with traditional horse and buggy. It doesn't matter if the modern conveyance is an ignorant or intentional misapplication; it will be better to properly enjoy car and horse separately.The future will reward the prepared mind. Your life, and the lives of your children can achieve greater accomplishments by a simple process. Find how each individual student learns most pleasurably and effectively, and let them fly.
The supposed purpose of education, as marketed by the education industry, is career advancement, higher pay, and empowering a college graduate's job search. This presents the current personal importance of education as determined by a few studies performed back when bureaucratic machines were still humming. We will discuss the social importance of education later. Educational importance before the industrial revolution was tied to:
1) learning,
2) preparation for wise leadership and personal achievement,
3) opening your mind to new ideas. What about today? More importantly, what about tomorrow?The bureaucratic epoch is ending.You must now determine what will be most important, to you and your children, in the future.
Contents at a Glance
Education should open the mind.
read the book
All education is self education.
BFU is changing education and society.
Education quotes on the current social importance of education
Education is becoming a fungible commodity.
more...
Contents at a Glance
Education should open the mind.
read the book
All education is self education.
BFU is changing education and society.
Education quotes on the current social importance of education
Education is becoming a fungible commodity.
Micro learning may be the future of education.
What really matters
less...
Explore related pagesAlternative Learning Systems & Experimental Education Renaissance Education - how to study and apply classical literature Bastiat Free University - rediscover the pleasures of self-directed learning College Degree Substitutes - don't be a bureaucrat The internet can be an ugly business. Building A Successful Business Using The Internet
Education should open the mind.
Effective learning involves creating and solving our own errors. Go ahead; over-step, stretch, get too enthusiastic. When you make those mistakes common to all high achievers, use them to learn. Then enthusiastically attack again.
Pry open your mind, don't let your education rust it shut. Learn to think, not to follow. combine your learning with action, letting unavoidable errors impel you to seek greater understanding.Coco Channel is quoted as saying "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." As the bureaucratic age winds down college degrees as requirements are replaceable; independent thinkers and visionary leaders are not. Cultivating a love of learning is becoming imperative for success."I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: 'Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?" - Leonardo da VinciChurchill has been attributed with a statement to the effect that "to be young and not be a liberal is to have no heart, to be older and not be a conservative is to have no brain". If this is a mostly true insight than why must institutions of higher learning spend so much energy shouting long and hard on ideas that students will probably embrace naturally. If you are a college student, ignore the repetitious bombast, seek out convincing counter arguments. Then make up your own mind. Open your eyes and observe even as your ears are assaulted."If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam ChomskyWe need that freedom of expression if we are to discover truth.Do not become one sided and two dimensional. Question those of us with educational authority; look past our emotion laden tirades to find our agenda. Expand your thoughts to understand all views that pertain to an issue. "We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us" - Virginia Satir We each learn differentlyShouldn't education be forced to discern and approach individual needs? The bureaucratic answer is consistent - "we need more teachers, and smaller class sizes." If each student is taught the same curriculum, regardless of their skills, desires, temperament, and abilities; class size is immaterial (except as it grows the power and wealth of protected education industries and unions).In commerce the day of one size fits many is just about over, replaced by self tailored solutions. In education everyone must fit in our size is still the rule. It is your life you are developing. Your life, and the lives of your children, will prosper to the degree you can openly structure self-directed learning and keep it pleasurable.Software is available that tailors itself to the needs and abilities of an individual student. Better and more appropriate learning is available online than in classrooms. Real change violates industrial learning traditions and the desires of entrenched educational bureaucracies, so powerful tools are played with only in the margins.Computers are pack saddled to existing educational models in an inefficient pretense. At common schools most technologies are used like hitching horses to a sports car. The horse drawn car does not compare favorably with traditional horse and buggy. It doesn't matter if the modern conveyance is an ignorant or intentional misapplication; it will be better to properly enjoy car and horse separately.The future will reward the prepared mind. Your life, and the lives of your children can achieve greater accomplishments by a simple process. Find how each individual student learns most pleasurably and effectively, and let them fly.
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