‘What is education’ ‘what is learning’
Would it be equipping the young to understand the complexities of life and the universe? Would it be learning the skills to survive and possibly thrive in a human built world? The latter is common to all species and especially to species with sophisticated social interactions.
The former is perhaps uniquely human; this desire to know, to make sense and to articulate understanding. Both require learning a set of foundational stuff to individually build on.
That is hardly the problem. The problem lies in the area of costs incurred by the individual while learning all of this.
Why does this happen, why does the individual get submerged by the learning process and lose itself?
Is it because of the enormous complexity of what we must learn coupled with the methods we employ to achieve this?
Have we lost control of the simple innate processes of ‘learning’ in the face of the magnitude and complexity of what we must learn?
Is the human made world with all it’s attendant systems facing another ‘limit’ similar to the ones faced in the way we conduct the building of our physical systems, our economic systems and our other systems.
Is it a question of scale?
Too unwieldy?
Perhaps humans need to rethink everything from foundation onwards and radically change the way we live our lives on this planet.
Education, manufacturing, economics, governance. Everything is interconnected and springs from the same impetus that we have to transform our world. It is what we are.
The only question is whether we are on the path to getting better at it before we screw things up irretrievably and kill ourselves in the process.
Nature won’t mind, either way.
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