Are we being deceived and robbed of a true education? Could we learn more from not being in school, but yet learning hands-on? Are we not distorting the truth by relying on what someone else writes in the books we read from?.
People learn something new every day through TV, radio, books, or even gossip. But most of the things are not necessarily true. The people who write what they witness can distort the event or even lie entirely. In school, instructors choose books and the books are not entirely true. The instructors rely on the information in the books to teach their students, and many of the books are filled with opinions not facts.
Many people in poverty stricken countries learn by hands-on teaching, since there are no schools available. They are mentors of their peers, forced to learn by physical truth. They seek the truth through watching their peers perform experiments or everyday duties.
But in other countries people learn from a school. They have books and hands-on presentations available to them through schools. They are subjected to many opinions and physical facts. Jose Ortega y Gasser once said that, " we observe by means of concepts." People are given assignments (A concept) and are made to seek out the truth and back their theories at times, but are still made to give opinions about the things they learn.
So are we being deceived and robbed of a true education? Could we learn more from not being in school, but yet learning hands-on? Are we not distorting the truth by relying on what someone else writes in the books we read from? Does our common sense question what we read?.
Studying in school is becoming more scientific fact and less theological fact and opinion. We must have more theory in schools to form a higher sought out truth. The more we bring to theory the more pure the fact we have. As Jose Ortega y Gasset stated once, "The true meaning of the word "curiosity" stems from the Latin root, the word cura, meaning the cared for- we must care about what we take in as the truth.