What is Education?
Definitions focus around:
- Methods of teaching for people to learn about various subjects.
- The transmission of knowledge, skills, and the development of character traits. Generally focused on formal education through public schools and homeschools, with an approved curriculum.
The basics of Education start with learning to read, write ,and do math. These are basic skills needed for life as we shop and interact with others.
Mastering skills for work and play require Education, which is mostly informal, though formal trade and specialty schools (like nursing) help individuals get started in a career they have an interest in.
Much of public Education is focused on knowledge, the ability to regurgitate information presented as factual. Students (recipients of Education) are seldom taught to question the information presented to them. Thus, there is a small pool of individuals capable of thinking deeply on subjects, applying logic to their exposure to information, or evaluating new data in ways contrary to popular opinion.
Some subjects like art, music, and theater tend to teach creativity and thinking “outside the box”.
Trade schools, shop, and home ed classes became more popular as basic life skills were less and less taught at home by parents. These practical classes were replaced with sex education, DEI and other social agenda subjects which should never have entered the public school curriculum.
As formal Education became more embraced by society, people narrowed their sources of information to popular experts, especially in the fields of faith, government, and science.
People became more and more specialists, and less and less capable of understanding the “bigger picture.”
Fewer individuals embraced Education as a lifelong pursuit of new information from common people sharing from their life experiences.
People assumed everyone was trustworthy, and expected new innovations would be widely embraced and shared by the “experts” in every field for the benefit of mankind. The thought of a few individuals controlling information available to the public was and still is foreign to most people.
With the establishment of the internet, the voice of individuals and minority groups became more and more accessible. As technology continued to be shared with the public it became easier and easier for podcasters to present information to larger and larger audiences. They begin to break the monopoly of news sources and technology elites to control the Education of the nation.
One example of breaking the censorship of the past is a podcast by Tucker Carlson interviewing Casey Putsch, a 43-year-old who built perhaps the most efficient car in the world, an aerodynamic 2-seater with a diesel engine getting over 100 miles per gallon. A vehicle he built with common parts in his garage applying principles of mechanics he learned throughout his life.
Since Tucker left Fox News, he has interviewed a wide variety of individuals to help them reach a wider audience in his effort to inform a segment of the population of information not allowed on conventional news channels.
Candace Owens is another podcaster who regularly presents alternative perspectives on race, news, politics, and life realities.
The question being raised by these alternate sources of information is often, “What is Truth?”
It is so difficult to teach new information to people once they have been indoctrinated. We get stuck in our ways as we age. We believe things will continue as they have always been.
And while it is true there is nothing new under the sun, people no longer live more than 120 years on earth. Thus, being aware of cycles of life over a century is difficult to comprehend. We cannot interview the dead, so we are dependent on those who control what is recorded as history and how information is shared with the general population.
So let us be continual learners, seeking to understand life from God’s eternal perspective and less beholden to popular opinion shaped by controlled Education.
