International Day of Education
Education is absolutely everything that everybody needs all the time. It is the act of acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitude especially during childhood and adolescence. It is available all the time whether it be in a formal environment or not. Information is available everywhere but whether you desire education is another whole ball game.
Education helps people fine tune their communication skills, values, learning to read, write, speak, and listen. Communication makes the world go around. Education also develops the ability to think critically which is vital when learning how to make decisions and interact with people and the rest of the world. People learn how to manage time, develop creativity, be discerning, find out more about human behaviour and especially educate themselves about themselves.
Education should instill a love of learning which should bring about positive changes in life and in behaviour, bringing with it a sense of accomplishment and the courage to take on new challenges and adventures. Learning should develop confidence, force you out of your comfort zone and positively impact your self-esteem. It should bring improvement on every single level: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. It teaches us how to question everything and how we are going to grow individually as well as how we are going to contribute to society.
Education requires curiosity, engagement, openness, humility, willingness to learn. It is not age determined because people learn from before birth through to death if they want to. The type of learning required for human beings to gain a full education includes the process of self-knowing. Mere knowledge or information is external from the self and too many emphasize the need to acquire “book knowledge” or just facts; but learning is the ability to process this knowledge through self-exploration, courage, and transformation turning information into knowledge by integrating it through experience. This is profound in depth education.
The resulting benefits are happy, stable, well balanced, and cooperative human beings who perform at their highest levels being able to emotionally self regulate, mature, add value to life and find contentment and purpose in their own life.
“When my client has learned to answer their own questions, my job is done”.
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