I am confused about education so I'm going to use this blog to try and sift through the mess. It seems as if the prosepct of educating everyone is a Catch22. There are many forms of education. One can be book-smart, street-smart, socailly-smart, politically-smart. There are many subcategories to being educated. One way in which society educates its people is by maintaing an open channel of communication out of which they have access to the facts. We learn about our government fromt he media, from newspapers, television, the internet, magazines, blogs...we have access to it almost everywhere. Which means that we also have access to a lot of opinions that might not be the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We have access to information that might be marred with biases, with ulterior motives, with propaganda, with factless ramblings. How, then, can we combat these falsehoods? The answer seems to lie somewhere in education. We need to be educated so we can differentiate between the truth and a lie. BUT the way we educate ourselves is by absorbing a free flow of information. BUT absorbing a free flow of information might mean absorbing a lie. And if we unwittingly absorb a lie then how do we know if it is a lie if we can't differentiate between the truth and a lie, or if we don;t know that we SHOULD differentiate between the truth and and a lie, or if we don't know that the Truth even exists, or if we don;t know that we are even capable of differentiating between the two?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Education enables us to be educated, yet it is a developemental process. By restricting the flow of information, by censoring an idea just because we don't think that someone is ready to interpret it in a way that won't be self-detrimental, which might then lead such a corrupted person to corrupt other, larger numbers of people, which might then lead to revolts that seek to overthrow the government, which might then lead to a nation that is nolonger a cohesive unit and therefor sees no problem in conspiring against other nations, which then leads to world wars, which then leads to wars with extraterrestrials from other planets, so soon the whole UNIVERSE is coconspiring against each other.....we are thereby impedeing the educational process itself!
I used to think that I was a lot happy when I didn't know. This is a product of gymnastics I think. Actually, it is a product of metacognition, of knowing that i know and then looking back and comparing my childhood -when I was naive and innocent to now, when I am aware and engaged. Gymnastics was easier when I was mindlessly going through the moves and not bogged down in all the extra baggage that came with knowing (ie. fear - because i became aware of consequences). But I think I am actually a lot happier now that I know, that I am able to consciously make rational and irrational decisions (haha).
So life is all about trial-and-error right? We try and we err and hopefully we learn from our errors and try again and err in some other way and learn again and fix old problems and try new things that inevitably pose new problems which we are also supposed to fix, then where do we draw the line???????? If we already know that something is going to be an error, then why not stop it before it happens? This is what censoring is all about. But then if we censor things we are barring people who might not have experienced those things from ever having the chance to try and to err?????????????????????????????????????????????????
Don't even get me started on truth. I think the conclusion I have about the nature of truth is that concrete truth (ie. this is a keyboard) is abstracted from the abstract Truth. This must then be the truth after which we all strive... the universal properties of truth lie in the abstract truth, not in the concrete truth because truth is circumstantial.
Also, women in Japan think that they carry a baby for 10 months, not 9.
Just saying.
ahhhh.
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