Education

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What is education? To be specific, www.dictionary.com describes it as, “The act or process of educating or being educated.” I would say this definition is a pretty general one, but another one that the website provides is a little better, “The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.” This is exactly what we see as an education today. Sure people can perceive what an education means in many different ways, but education always comes back to what we were taught and what we retained from that teaching. Education is something that everyone in life needs to obtain in order for one to keep a life, without an education one will go through life with no thought process or even a purpose.
After all of the definitions and different ways of viewing an education I have to ask myself what the real purpose of having an education is. Before I explain my views I have a few quotes of different views on the purpose of education.
“Education: being able to differentiate what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information once you’ve got it.”
- William Feather
This quote is one that I feel has very great meaning. To me it tells us that an education is more like a journey through life, that we need to find an education to be able to deal with everything that is around us. “Being able to differentiate what you do know and what you don’t..”


Certain situations are always arising in life that we don’t really know what to do with, these situations are ones that we have not been educated on and we need to put what we already do know into context to be able to deal with them. That line from the quote is the one that I feel is the real key to Feather’s thinking.
Continuing on to my own experiences with education, I feel that I have been taught very well over my school years. My first memory of school was from...