Education And Education : The Power Of Education

In the article, Education and Schooling: You Can Have One Without the Other, Mwalimu J. Shujaa of the State University of New York discusses the importance of learning that there is a difference between schooling and education. Can education exist without schooling or vice versa? Shujaa’s article gives an insight into the conjunction of schooling and education and how they impact the culture of African Americans.

It has been stated and understood that the purpose of education was best explained by John Dewey and was defined as transferring knowledge to young minds while preparing them for specific roles throughout society. Education must empower children and provide them with a sense of courage, inspiration, and worth. It is not simply teaching a set standard or curriculum. Teaching and learning should focus on values, attitudes, behaviors, and principles to help students learn to be unique yet commendable contributing citizens in a world filled with diversity. In order to conquer such goals, it is important to include all the variables, teachers, students, parents, curriculum, standards, and the community’s position. Without one of these vital roles, everyone will suffer and the overall goal will be that much more difficult to reach. The students, teacher, and community all take responsibilities in educating today’s children regardless of their ethnic, cultural, religious or sexual beliefs. In my classroom it is vital for students to feel comfortable, heard, and appreciated.

The misconception that occurs between education and knowledge isn’t rare. Many say that knowledge is knowing many things, but education is understanding many things. One can simply memorize the material, know it, and then receive a one hundred on a test. Whereas an educated person will learn the material to where they understand it and can use what they learned in everyday life. By learning the material and understanding it, that material will be carried on throughout one’s life. This is because when one understands something instead of memorizing it, they will have a long-term memory of that

Education and literacy are very important and play many roles in everyday lives. Over many years, education and literacy have been viewed as something to be proud of and something to strive towards, this can be seen back in the mid-20th century, while in more recent times, the views have changed to almost the polar opposite of the original views. Today, they aren’t as cherished or valued as they were back in the day. In the time of Malcolm X, the mid-20th century, education and literacy were valued much more because of the perceived difficulty of gaining them. The ease of access now a days, due to technology, to education, such as books, makes the value of education and literacy go down much more than how it was valued back in the times

Have you ever pondered about learning? Not all of it happens in a classroom. Though most of it does, obtaining new knowledge comes from the world around you and it aids in various ways other than being ranked among your peers.

“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s we rob them of tomorrow.” John Dewey once spoke this quote to remind his audience that if we keep teaching new generations the same curriculum as we did 30 years ago, our knowledge would never expand or grow. It would simply stay the same. Education is one of the most important tools that is applied to help us young adults succeed, it also teaches us the importance of life and helps us face the challenges in life. I would like to succeed and go through the schooling of a Secondary Education teacher and teach 8th grade English so I teach my students as well as I was taught in school. With that said, knowledge is gained through education that helps enables an individual's’ potential to be the best that they can be. The role of teaching and what has been taught in school has played a huge role in many people's lives in the past generation.

Ever since I was young, I was told that education is the path to success. My father always told me that education will open more doors for me in the future and that I shouldn’t give up. Growing up as a student with English as my second language has been difficult in my educational life, although I comprehend the language sometimes there are some words that I am not yet familiar with, education has given me the ability to understand English.  My sponsor of interpreters club has told us, that being bilingual is a gift that we must take advantage of.

Throughout history, we can see that humans always try to acquire new knowledge. We can see this pattern because knowledge helps us, human, to have a better understanding of the world that we live in. When gaining knowledge we don't only use one way of knowing for each area of knowledge. We use a network of ways of knowing for each area of knowledge in order to acquire new discovery. We can notice a network of ways of knowing is being used in mathematics and art. Not every area of knowledge uses the same network of ways of knowing. Instead, each area of knowledge has a slightly different network of ways of knowing.

A student has the ability to learn without a teacher. However, the Law of the Teaching Process creates the background for a teacher to guide a student on the path to more knowledge. A teacher should establish a safe environment that encourages thinking to help students learn “the unknown by the way of the known” (84). Acquiring their knowledge and increasing their mental power correlates to the aims of a teacher as they guide students. While a teacher is to be passionate in laying out knowledge, the really work of an education, acquiring knowledge, is the work of the student. A student learns by discovery and information stores as the student interprets the new information.

Everyone looks different on the outside, so why make them look the same on the inside? Adolescents are being enrolled into the school systems around the globe everyday, but are they being served the true ‘goals’ of an education? We are being taught what other adult figures think that we need to know, but the relevance may not be as suitable as you think Every student can learn, just not on the same day in the same way.

As Daniel J. Boorstin said, “Education is learning what you didn 't even know you didn 't know.”

Many things in life are exceptionally difficult to place into strict formulated categories and the way one acquires new knowledge is no exception. Leaders in education are still trying to place students into learning categories that they can understand and control. These attempts have not been successful because not only do we all learn in different ways, but the way in which we attain knowledge is diversified by our ever-changing present circumstances. Human beings and their experiences are complex and diverse and should be imagined as such. Acquiring knowledge is an abstract concept that is happening constantly and rapidly. The human experience is full of constant acquisition of knowledge that comes to us through our own self-inquiry and the influence of others.

My motivation for continue the work in academia is the opportunity to teach, advice, inspire and educate both undergraduate and graduate students. I strongly believe in the importance of education in society, and teaching has provided me with rewarding experience during my work at Sultan Qaboos University SQU, American University of Beirut AUB, Hashemite university HU, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale SIU, and Utah State University University. I believe that the knowledge I accumulate as educator and researcher is only valuable if shared with others. As such, I had the opportunity to teach and advice both undergraduate and graduate students in the current and earlier jobs.

Have you spent the past few years studying a degree? If you can still remember the sleepless nights at the library, you’ll be happy to know it hasn’t been for nothing. You can – and you should – put your education to work on your resume and use it to land your dream job.

If you search up the word ‘Knowledge’ it would say “skills acquired by a person through experience or education.” The definition of ‘Skills’ is “the ability to do something well.” To have knowledge you will need to learn first. Some say that education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world, which I agree. Therefore, information cannot be converted into knowledge without education. In my perspective, knowledge produces skills that will help you control and have a fundamental understandings; that prepares you for life.