Comment on "Education is the key"

You know, all I'm saying is, I need to comment 3 ideas from the speech about education while I'm forming part of education while I'm in the lock which is the school which is an educational institution where I do oral presentations and then I do oral presentation self-evaluations, you know!?!

Try to rap this, come on!

When did the oral presentation self-evaluation thing become a running gag?

(...) you know money is only the medium by which one measures worldly success, some of you even have the nerve to say, I don't do it for the money, so what are you studying for? To work for a charity, need more clarity?(...)

Yep, I do have the nerve. At least I don't do it primarily for the money and much less exclusively for the money. Is money only a medium to measure of worldly success? What do you define as success? The other day I was talking to a friend about that topic. When I told him that I was going to go to University next year and do my studies for 4-5 years, he wished me luck and said that he found it funny to follow the process of someone becoming successful. I was a little confused about his way of expressing it ("someone becoming successful") and he was rather surprised because of my reaction. He answered that someone with universitary studies is bound to earn lots of money in the future, hence successful. 

Then I asked myself: is having lots of money really success? If that was true, is Justin Bieber a successful person, an idol to follow? I see real success as achieving something in life. Setting yourself an objective, working hard for it and eventually accomplishing it. So if Justin Bieber set himself the objective to become famous with his music, well, yes, I guess he is kind of successful. But not because of the money. It's because what he wanted to be, what he dreamt of.

And what if someone dreams of having lots of money and that's his objective? Maybe earning lots of money so you can reach other goals, so the money helps you to achieve them. Maybe you want to accumulate a fortune so your children will have an easier life. But the money itself and only the money should never be your goal. Money is just an instrument.

Since I just got shot some picadilly towards my bottom (so many tasks to do, man) and I overdid things with the first idea... Let's hit the gas pedal and try to increase the relation quality/quantity.

Education is not just about regurgitating facts from a book on someone else’s opinion on a subject to pass an exam.

Like, +1, #educationisthekey or whatever you prefer, but this, ladies and gentlemen, is the damn truth. This is the major problem I see in our eduaction system. You have to fit in. You have to learn to repeat, you're not asked to learn to learn. Personally, I hate memorising for exams. That's probably why history's one of my less favourite subjects, even though I find it interesting. One of the reasons I enjoy science classes is that you can resolve most of the exercises applying logic. Okay, true, there are formulas that you have to memorise, but as long as they explain how scientists deduced the formula and you know it, the memorising serves only as a time saving factor. We are hardly ever asked to think for ourselves. Now we have philosophy classes, which are tragically interesting. Tragically because, after all, it's still 80% memorising and understanding another one's opinions and thoughts. If you are actually interested and you like "philosophing" by yourself, you will end up reflecting and contrapose your own opinion and the ones of the philosophers. The problem becomes enormous when you do not have an own opinion. And I fear this is a more wide-spread problem than many might believe. I myself felt a little opinionless, thoughtless, when we began philosophy of 2nd  of Batxillerat. Last year there were more debates in class, more exercises that emphasised on our own point of view. This year, from the very beginning, we almost exclusively studied the conception of the authors. My proposal is that the school system should focus way more on individual thinking and creativity, starting from primary school.


I'm just writing comments equally long... This can't be T_T

Looking at David Beckham, there is more than one way in this world to be an educated man.

Or woman :)
It's totally true. A painter can be as intelligent as an astrophysicist as a shopkeeper. This is related to the previous quote. Why do we all have to fit in into the few possibilities that our education system promotes? Being educated is more than knowing school stuff. There is also social intelligence. Creativity. The ability to find practical solutions. Flexibility. These are all qualities of outmost importance to be successful in the real life. And school kills most of them. We feel too comfortable here. We should learn to face our problems.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights are the rights a person has simply because he/she is a human being. In other words, the laws that must be respected and cannot be violated which protect a person's dignity, their life, etc. without any single exception; they are universal.

The human rights were created in 1948 as a consequence after the horrific deeds of the Nazis under the direction of Hitler such as the merciless genocide known as Holocaust. People knew that something had to be done to ensure that no more similar tragedies would come to happen again. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights consists of 30 different articles.

One of the articles that I found most interesting was Article #26: The Right to Education

1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Point 1 implies that all students should be treated equally and that the access to higher education levels should exclusively be regulated by their results in relation to their effort. That is to say, students should work for their future, not simply relying on mommy's and daddy's money. I didn't know that the worries for equalities of the Human Rights even arrived at that point. In fact, I'm not sure if there's any place on the Earth where this is applied consequently. That would be an example of a Human Right with a simple idea which is violated practically everywhere.

Point 2 basically is self-propaganda. Human Rights should be taught and promoted in school, which is, I believe, a good idea. If we make the children know about Human Rights early in school, they will stick to the idea and it will become something more natural for them. Probably this is the main problem of the Human Rights right now: the concept is great but they're vastly ignored by governments around the world.

Finally, the last point introduces the authority that parents have when it comes to decisions about their children. Maybe this is a critical issue since parents don't always make the right choices either... But I guess there has to be someone to decide as long as the children aren't mature enough to decide by themselves. And when is that? Questions over questions... After all, the Human Rights are not perfect. But most articles should already be applied without any problems and that's not the case. Apathy won't solve the problem.

(By the way, no new words, sorry)