I do enjoy the nonacademic learning part of my education. I think that talking and sharing ideas is the best part about learning something new. I think when a new idea is presented, you can get a better perspective of it if you talk it out. You also learn more when you learn how other people think. If you only think one way for your entire life things would be pretty boring, and you would never develop viewpoints of your own. You will just regurgitate the information that was thrown at you in school or in life in general. If you don’t learn different ways to think, you will take everything at face value and not look into what they are really saying. You would buy things because they said they were the best, and not compare them to others.
Of course there are other parts to noneducational learning, but thinking is my favorite. I love new ideas and new thoughts. I like to defend my own ideas and challenge others. I like to hear others viewpoints and then maybe change mine if theirs make sense to me.
Other nonacademic education is important, but I think they all can fall under the category of ideas and thoughts. There are thoughts about religion and politics, as well as things like the meaning of life, and rhetoric strategies in advertising.
Although I like the academic part of education as well, I don’t think it would be as effective without the discussion and the sharing of ideas as well as learning to convey ideas effectively and converse in an educated manner.
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Jordan-
I agree with you for the most part about what you said about having a nonacademic education. I enjoy getting to hear other people’s ideas and viewpoints about different subjects. There are also many new ways for material to be presented that are brought out in nonacademic education. By getting different perspectives on religion/values, morals, and politics in government, it helps people to grow and can understand more about what it going on in their world.
However, I don’t see anything wrong with the traditional education of learning the “Three Rs”: reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic. I really do enjoy all the discussions about life and larger topics in English class, but learning the basics of English grammar is important too. It’s important not to forget about the power of traditional education. The basics are important. Basic math and reading comprehension skills are necessary for everyone. With the push to nonacademic education over the past 150 years, sometimes the basic of education gets overlooked. Overall, I think a combination of the two types of schooling is best for everyone.
I agree with you when you say that someone would never learn viewpoints of their on but would regurgitate information. Learning how the world works to persuade and to sway opinions is essential to keeping an open mind about your own and being able to question what you are told. When people just preach at a student, the student a) does not get engaged in the education and therefore does not learn and b) will not be a well functioning member of society becase they will be simply a puppet to whoever taught them.
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