04-26-2012, 12:00 AM
Dear All,
I was wondering on my way home from town today if belief and knowledge are the same thing? Knowledge is something that you know to be true so what is a belief? I heard someone explain once that faith and belief are two different things. He explained it like this as if you were at a bus stop and the sign at the bus said there is a bus coming on that day at a specific time. Having faith means you will wait at the bus stop. At what point in our education should we learn the difference between faith and belief, information and knowledge, emotion and feeling? I have for a long time been interested in education and having felt a distinct lack of it throughout schoolI thought it might be fun to write a new syllabus and what to include that you think kids should be learning and also practical ways in which they could learn them. Or perhaps you disagree with me and think that the way school in the west is actually not broken and does not need fixing?
One thing that struck me as I have been learning about History and mainly War in History is that I did not know nearly anything about the first and second world wars. I knew more about the Romans! Who fought who, why did they happen? |Why, if the first world war was the war to end all wars was there another war shortly after? Why were so many non combatants murdered? What was the outcome of both wars? I think it would be very beneficial to study questions like this, questions that make young minds think rather than switch off. Perhaps I just went to a bad school? Perhaps some of you did tackle tough subject and did truly exercise your minds. I would be interested to know what you think about education in general, what you would add to the syllabus and how you would teach subjects differently.
I was thinking that it is all very well to say the education system is bad, which I believe it is, but unless you have something to replace it with who is going to listen? Innovation is my ideal.
I was wondering on my way home from town today if belief and knowledge are the same thing? Knowledge is something that you know to be true so what is a belief? I heard someone explain once that faith and belief are two different things. He explained it like this as if you were at a bus stop and the sign at the bus said there is a bus coming on that day at a specific time. Having faith means you will wait at the bus stop. At what point in our education should we learn the difference between faith and belief, information and knowledge, emotion and feeling? I have for a long time been interested in education and having felt a distinct lack of it throughout schoolI thought it might be fun to write a new syllabus and what to include that you think kids should be learning and also practical ways in which they could learn them. Or perhaps you disagree with me and think that the way school in the west is actually not broken and does not need fixing?
One thing that struck me as I have been learning about History and mainly War in History is that I did not know nearly anything about the first and second world wars. I knew more about the Romans! Who fought who, why did they happen? |Why, if the first world war was the war to end all wars was there another war shortly after? Why were so many non combatants murdered? What was the outcome of both wars? I think it would be very beneficial to study questions like this, questions that make young minds think rather than switch off. Perhaps I just went to a bad school? Perhaps some of you did tackle tough subject and did truly exercise your minds. I would be interested to know what you think about education in general, what you would add to the syllabus and how you would teach subjects differently.
I was thinking that it is all very well to say the education system is bad, which I believe it is, but unless you have something to replace it with who is going to listen? Innovation is my ideal.