Why Education?

I am of the serious opinion that all the worlds problems, one way or another, come back to education; usually to the lack of it.  This category is here to invite discussion and ideas for an education system that actually works.   Sadly, we must also discuss those who, no matter the system, will remain unable or unwilling to accept its benefits.

Note that when I use the word “education”, I refer to a process where humans are helped to develop the tools of critical thought.   Tools that let them absorb information, process it for themselves, then use it for the betterment of their own situations.  This is opposed to the current system that I consider a very poor combination of child care, elementary job training, and political and social indoctrination.

My overriding interest in this topic stems from a basic worldview.  It is that, all humans are driven, by their own intelligence, to attempt to describe the elements of the universe around them.  For myriad reasons.  But, in the simplest sense, humans have only 2 methods for attempting these universal descriptions:

1. Through the application of knowledge and understanding, or,
2. Through ignorance and superstition.

Each of us uses both methods.  The hope for improving the lot of mankind lies in moving everything that current knowledge allows, away from method 2 and toward method 1.  That is education.

It is just that simple.  More to come.