What good is trying to educate people that do not value learning per se, are not unusual (beyond the desire to feel the emotion) and unfortunately has lost its sense of wonder?
I see fewer children in fifth grade through college and beyond with a passion for learning, understanding or even reading. Passion that is presented before the four horsemen of the Apocalypse Intellectual first film, second radio, television, third and fourth Internet to the masses become passive emotion / adrenaline observers looking after intellectually active participants who read voraciously Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, or even the huge Herman Melville.
People need to be educated, more rather than less literate and almost proud of it. But people do not do what they need, they do what they want. And we want to encourage, maintain that high and challenging to avoid boredom at all costs. Thinking, contemplating, understanding and learning that are necessary for lasting satisfaction in life unfortunately not be settled by the immediate gratification that seems to lead so many people.
Therefore, consider the following proposal. People what he wants in the hope of discovering what they need. If the children beyond the fifth grade (it seems that many children have in their innate curiosity about the fourth grade) are more concerned and obsessed with having even receive, and then in high school and college to get ahead, we give them training and skills to do just that. Do not miss education or teaching in them.
Instead of providing teaching and education to those who want it. This often happen to be future leaders, it seems that these people do know that there is more to life than the transaction myopia (finding the agreement to the transaction, together treat).
You may even be the bloggers who write about topics like these, because I was one of those people who was not particularly interested in learning itself, understanding the things below the surface, or even reading (even now I write with much more ease and enthusiasm that I read).
I find it ironic that a girl who was once considered the longest ten minutes in life were those that took place just before a school day had ended and now I feel that the greatest luxury that I could imagine, if I did not have to make a living as a provider-would be to return to school (or even do it online) and listen and taste the best conferences of the wisest and most inspiring speakers I could find.
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