education

Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

Sir Ken Robinson__ 2008 talk on educational reform__ntitled __o Schools Kill Creativity?___as now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children__ scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they grow older and advance through the educational system. He concludes that children start out as curious, creative individuals but are made duller by factory-style schools that spend too much time teaching children academic facts and not enough helping them express themselves. Sir Ken clearly cares greatly about the well-being of children, and he is a superb storyteller, but his arguments about creativity, though beguilingly made, are almost entirely baseless.

Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and career: for the sake of citizenship, for the sake of living well with others, above all, for the sake of building a self that is strong and creative and free.

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Consider, for a moment, how profound is an education: every human-made object in the world is the result of one. Every car, computer, particle accelerator, thatched hut, hairstyle, soufflé, piano concerto. These are the products not only of the skilled hands and nimble minds of their creators, but the result of whole traditions and systems of education. Change education, and you change the world.

Imagination is a divine creativity.

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.

Self education is holy mission.

You must explore the timeless opportunities in life.

What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling.

Do not exchange the 24 hours for money. Give some time for your own accomplishments.

Write like you have many readers.

First knowledge is the knowledge of God.

You have to discovery many things by yourself.