Is Education The Same As Schooling? | The Jose Vilson

Is Education The Same As Schooling? | The Jose Vilson:

Is Education The Same As Schooling?

by Jose Vilson

Bill Gates

In the first piece of my two-part series on Bill Gates’ interview on teacher evaluation, I found myself perplexed by this college dropout, one of many, keeping with the same old adage that kids take tests all the time and that’s just a part of getting an education, so just deal with it. Of course, it led to many questions:

1. How many tests actually determine whether they get to the next level of their education?
2. Will these tests accurately determine whether they succeed in life?
3. Is getting an education the same as getting schooling?

One place to look is at college sports, for instance. I wonder why society has yet to embrace college athletes getting their degrees in the sport they got a full scholarship for. If this athlete dedicates their entire life at that moment to a given topic (namely: the sport) with collection of teachers (coaches, trainers, and other personnel) and studies this topic for the better part of a school year (the season and off-season workouts), then why couldn’t that student get a degree in the sport, as a graduate of that sport?
Carmelo Anthony, Syracuse University basketball star, got his degree in one year and became successful at his