Day 1574: The Difficult Conversation, Part 6

The difficult conversation, part 6.

I completed a course that had no homework and no exams. What am I really getting into, what will be required from me as a physical expression and contribution to the education system and basically setting my expectations of school, university.

Essentially starting a course in university is starting a program with a clear goal: to complete the course and become more effective in the profession related to the information shared. The program is dead in a way – it’s already preprogrammed that you’re going to be exposed to various angles around a topic within the greatest topic about humanity, society as a whole, and human nature within all that. Every year people are graduating from university, so the curriculum is kind of dead, it’s the structure and hard load that one must stand within/as with utmost calm and clarity of understanding who I am within this information. Starting university is akin to reading books, doing assignments, doing group projects, and writing exams. Sort of farfetched that reading a profuse amount of books or material is going to change permanently my own human nature into a more effective version of my own. So that’s my first expectation: university and books are not there to instruct me on how to become a better human being, and the university material is not here to wipe my awareness nor instruct me on who I should be in consideration of the dimensions shared in books.

It’s one of the futile things about going about educating a population: how do I make education formal and proper and actually raise the level of civil discourse around a topic within the greater topic about humanity and human nature? So you write, people write, people share their considerations and realizations about the topic of study. It’s an excuse to write and invite each participant in university to wrestle with the opinions given.

And it’s like we’ve delegated our responsibility for our level of education to an institution to give us the papers that justify and camouflage the deeper instinct to be greedy and self interested in a powerless victim to the superior and all powerful educational institution, which is just a bunch of people like you and me, charged with the responsibility to answer this age old question of how to educate a bunch to be better human beings, because the better the quality of human beings obviously the better, more effective and functional humanity becomes.

It seems like education pivots on our ability and responsibility to understand letters and numbers. The obvious format of the delivery deliberately is through books, through writing, through numbers and equations. So we can walk around a huge garden taking our time to go around in a circle, and our education condenses and is summarized as how nimble and able we are in understanding the letters – words – and numbers communicated through actual living real people working together in a formal organization or business.

It’s like an athlete that sprints. One can make a big noise around the total process from beginning to end of the sprint to 100m, but it can be understood as the readiness, calm, certainty with which each athlete takes his stride, step by step boiled down further into the ideal physical stepping of the athlete. Education never ends. Self perfection never ends. It might possibly extend into the afterlife, this learning and perfecting process of considering all things in great detail and exploring our image and likeness as the possibility of living as a God that creates order within chaos, and introduces a little chaos, also known as spontaneity and enjoyment, into dead order as structure and frameworks.