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By *oozleMan
over a year ago
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It depends, education can come in many forms, do I believe all kids should get free education -yes, do I think everyone should get the chance to go onto higher education - yes, being educated doesn’t make you a nasty person or above anyone else, that’s down to the individual . |
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How can you be educated too much? Yeah I'm highly educated in area of expertise. But I'm also educated enough to know I don't know everything on every subject.
How can someone think or challenge too much? We're not zombie's? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Depends on the education. If all you know is lots of facts, but you can't reason or evaluate or consider different viewpoints, then that's not helpful. However, if the education is decent, it should teach you those things alongside the facts.
You only have to look at the situation in places where there is a lack of education to realise its importance - to women's equality, to striving for social justice and for environmental awareness.
I think education is really important, but that's not to say it all has to come from a book. A lot of "education" happens through life experience too. |
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By *oozleMan
over a year ago
high wycombe |
"Oh definite evil. If people weren't as educated they'd have a lot more common sense. Street smarts. That sort of thing because it's all rather binary."
You can be educated and street smart at the same time! |
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"Oh definite evil. If people weren't as educated they'd have a lot more common sense. Street smarts. That sort of thing because it's all rather binary."
Waaa Meli, off to put a knife in a power socket, because I question too much and clearly have no commen sense  |
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By *oozleMan
over a year ago
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"Depends on the education. If all you know is lots of facts, but you can't reason or evaluate or consider different viewpoints, then that's not helpful. However, if the education is decent, it should teach you those things alongside the facts.
You only have to look at the situation in places where there is a lack of education to realise its importance - to women's equality, to striving for social justice and for environmental awareness.
I think education is really important, but that's not to say it all has to come from a book. A lot of "education" happens through life experience too."
Excellent reasoning! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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What do we mean by too educated ?
I suspect it brings a whole different host of thinking errors. Like over confidence in ones wider knowledge due to expertise in one area . Although dunning and kruger may disagree ! |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"Oh definite evil. If people weren't as educated they'd have a lot more common sense. Street smarts. That sort of thing because it's all rather binary.
Waaa Meli, off to put a knife in a power socket, because I question too much and clearly have no commen sense "
Darn it Frida, if only you'd not studied as much you'd know that you shouldn't do such a thing. Perils of education right there.
To reply to the OP, I think it's important that people think. Critically. Challenge. At the same time that includes challenging the validity of what they think. Recognising and not falling into a Dunning-Kruger trap. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If you mean the idea that half of young people should go to a university to study something, then education is stupid and a waste of time and money. There is a huge difference between quality of education and course content. For example, studying Physics at Oxford as opposed to Media Studies at Staffordshire. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Educated in what ? By whom ? "
Crucial questions. Also to what ends, and for whose benefit ?
There are repressive and authorian regimes with high levels of formal Education where the citizens are actively taught not to question authority or challenge certain 'facts'. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If you mean the idea that half of young people should go to a university to study something, then education is stupid and a waste of time and money. There is a huge difference between quality of education and course content. For example, studying Physics at Oxford as opposed to Media Studies at Staffordshire."
Hey, I’ve got an ology in media studies at Staffordshire I’ll have you know! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Is Education a force for evil?
Do the educated know too much?
Think too much? Challenge too much? Believe what they are thought too much?
taught ? "
The irony |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If you mean the idea that half of young people should go to a university to study something, then education is stupid and a waste of time and money. There is a huge difference between quality of education and course content. For example, studying Physics at Oxford as opposed to Media Studies at Staffordshire."
All the people who studied Media at Staffordshire just collectively went "awww" at the same time. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Is Education a force for evil?
Do the educated know too much?
Think too much? Challenge too much? Believe what they are thought too much? "
Too much thoughting isn’t good for me noggin. |
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By *opinovMan
over a year ago
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"Is Education a force for evil?
Do the educated know too much?
Think too much? Challenge too much? Believe what they are thought too much? "
Perhaps you should try it for yourself some time in order to arrive at an 'educated conclusion'.
Meanwhile, try not to get appendicitis. |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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Personally, I do not think education can ever be excessive, especially in our times when there is so much disinformation and fake news - Covid being just one example of being used by governments which provided utter confusion, Brexit was another etc etc.
Education is not about reciting medieval poems or knowing every date in modern history etc.
Education is about learning to critically assess a situation and that can be taught at any age and in any environment. So it is about reading not one but several sources, that are independent from each other to have a chance (and it is a chance only) of arriving at something reminiscent of the truth.
Education and associated personal growth (for me at least) never ever stop.... if they did I would not want to be around.
Finally, education can be so much fun. From learning another language or an instrument, from learning a strategic game like chess or painting... you name it... there is so much fun to be had!
It makes us humans what we are. |
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