True education is the education that teaches you to teach yourself, and inspires you with the desire to do that. To achieve that, you need to know how to read, and more importantly why. You need to write: not just cipher, but to communicate ideas. You need to learn to research, and you need to develop the knack of knowing that there are things you dont know but can nonetheless seek them out. You need enough exposure to every field of human endeavor that you can see why people do them and help choose one that you can contribute to (while appreciating the work others put in). You need to know that you inhabit a human body, a complex and remarkable but fragile machine, which will do the most amazing things if you treat it well.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:37:12 +0000