Education is something I think about often, and love to hear others’ views about. Does education, as most dictionaries will tell you, simply pertain to ‘systematic instruction’? Certainly, I would agree that the education system here in the UK does seem to fall under the above definition.
I have, however, come across another definition of education, that of education as an ‘enlightening experience’. How fantastic is that? I love both aspects of this definition:
- that education is experiential
- that the experience must be enlightening in order to educate the participant
Now, I am an ex-primary school teacher. I know only too well the demands placed on teachers and I am not suggesting for one minute that all of a teachers lessons, all day, 5 days a week should or even could be ‘enlightening’ in our usual sense of the word…
But I am suggesting that for a student to really learn and understand, they must experience the subject. In my experience, once students are engaged in experiential learning, their intrigue and curiosity is ignited and they can’t help but learn, and that ‘learning’ of something new, the deeper understanding, is, I believe, what the ‘enlightenment’ above refers to.
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