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RE: The Examined Education | Questioning the Current State of Education

in #life7 years ago

Yes. I like the questions you raise, they are important. Even though they seem so obviously the right questions, looking at the world, these questions still need to be raised, and raised much more loudly than is normally done.

I especially liked this "Is an education that is without the examination of the facts, morals, and values worth pursuing?" And would like to add: is anything else even worth calling 'education'? If not for the stimulation of thought, of freedom of thinking, and realising how difficult it is to truly think something - why would education be important? It's the only, and most important tool against totalitarianism (which is not only political, it can also be a certain value / thought that overruns the world and is not questioned...)

But then again, I've finished a PhD in contemporary philosophy and am still educating myself, every day, challenging and reading and questioning my own ideas...

What is lacking in the world of education... to learn something without first critiquing it. Can we read/think something without first having an opinion? That is the kind of philosophy I'm not trying to develop, slowly.