Progression Through Knowledge

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When one is offered education, one is also offered the opportunity to learn. However, to take this gift or not is one’s choice. Education is concrete, as it can be taught and learned at various places, such as schools, universities, and corporations. How we apply it is the hardest and an indefinite obstacle, but is proven to bid us greatest form of education - knowledge. In return for knowledge, we must fully envelop ourselves into the surrounding world, learning from both mistakes and achievements, pushing ourselves to greater heights. Knowledge has no bounds or limits, offering great insight and wisdom to those who are determined to chase it. In today’s society, education entails simply depositing by both the educator (depositor) and student (depository), creating a banking concept. Education does not take a creative form of any sort, unlike knowledge, and appeals much less to the depository. Knowledge allows for an individual to grow and expand beyond the boundaries that they have been limited to by others or themselves. Education is indeed needed as a backbone for knowledge, but doesn’t entail the interaction and curiosity that knowledge offers.
Students today are not being taught a cumulative education, but rather a “banking concept of education.” After a test or assessment over materials, many classes move forward with lesson plans and do not take time to go over all the lessons learned. This gives students the impression that they can merely braindump by learning the material the night before, taking the assessment, then forgetting it all. Some may argue that English is a cumulative class, which it is, offering students the ability to expand their knowledge by learning from mistakes and achievements. In many English class...

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... education? Education serves very minimal purpose if not used to further an individual’s knowledge. Knowledge allows us to apply what we have learned through interactions to education, revoking the concept of banking. Memorization does no good and by developing a cumulative education, we will become reinvented individuals, developing a curiosity for knowledge and insight. As society develops, we must change our educational systems so that the students are not dependent upon the teachers or parents and have educational aspirations and standards of their own. Students should not live up to the expectations of others, but to the expectations that they themselves hold. By creating this independency amongst the students, they will be nurtured by their own determination, leading to a truly educational environment where the students are striving to reach their own goals.

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