What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated?
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
~ Maya Angelou
Education should provide countless opportunities for students to discover their talents andpursue their passions, instead of being an obligation and competition to be “ready” for college and careers.
Schooling should be about students learning to love, being loved, and cultivating a love of learning, rather than students learning primarily for assessment.
It is far more important that students are free to learn in school and well educated, than subjecting them to continuous testing to determine if they have been educated well.
We always find time for what we truly love, one way or another.Suppose further that love, being an inclusive spirit, refused to choose between Shakespeare and Toni Morrison (or Tony Bennett, for that matter), and we located our bliss in the unstable relationship between the two, rattling from book to book, looking for connections and grandly unconcerned about whether we’ve read “enough,” as long as we read what we read with love…The whole world’s a classroom, and to really make it one, the first thing is to believe it is.We need to take seriously the proposition that reflection and knowledge born out of contact with the real world, an education carpentered out of the best combination we can make of school, salon, reading, online exploration, walking the streets, hiking in the woods, museums, poetry classes at the Y, and friendship, may be the best education of all—not a makeshift substitute that must apologize for itself in the shadow of academe…You get the idea. The American tradition, in learning as well as jazz and activism, is improvisatory.There are as many ways to become anWhat Does It Mean To Be Well Educated? | WagTheDog:
