Education: Education teaches you communication skills like reading, writing, comprehension and speaking. Also - mathematics and logical reasoning. This is the basics of what education teaches you, which are great tools that you will need later on in life....
Professional: This would be a specialized field of knowledge such as a doctor, lawyer, and electrician. Very specific fields. Most of them have a practical importance.
Pragmatic: This is the most important education. It includes health and money related subjects that are vital in life, things we all should posses from early childhood. Learning to understand and develop your body and mind. Learning how to make and manage money or financial matters. These are critical relationships. It's funny how schools don't normally teach any pragmatic financial education. Of course, we must exclude highly specialized professional schools and universities. However, these cover a very small part of the young. It's almost as if politicians and the general public still believe that money is evil, that money isn't important, etc. Nothing could be further from the truth. Their is good and evil on both sides, no matter how much money you have, how rich or poor you are.
One can really wonder why ordinary schools don't teach us really good pragmatic things, especially health and financial education. Health is considered a highly specialized discipline that is taught to a small portion of students in the medical field. Making money and managing one's finances is probably considered unnecessary. No need to mention the almost complete lack of decent programs in most schools related to using modern technology for pragmatic educational purposes. No wonder that businesses often disregard the educational certificates of graduates, and graduates often cannot find decent jobs. Actually the whole system of education seems quite out of zinc with today's reality. Take a look at the chart below
Do you understand the chart above? Can you see how today's education system is behind on the learning process. Look at the upper, narrow part of the cone - the 10%-30%. This is how we learn in school through reading, listening, and looking at pictures. But this is the poorest way to learn anything. That's why not everyone is cut out for academics. That's why they say academics is a memory game and that's it. The best memory wins! Memorize, memorize, memorize...It doesn't necessarily mean your smarter than the guy next to you or that you are more educated than someone else. Do you even know where the word educated comes from, it comes from the Latin word Educo, which means to draw out, lead out, march out, to foster.
Take a look at what new opportunities are shown only on this blog. See the advantages and convenience of distant learning technologies. Think of the underused chances and possibilities to grow in an individual life long learning environment. Compare your situation with that of other more advanced places around the world. Along this road, maybe, we too could come up with much better ways to educate our children and get them fit for the 21 Century.
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