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date = '2026-03-01T18:11:14+00:00'
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title = 'What is Education?'
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categories = 'philosophy'
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tags = ['education', 'academics', 'system']
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toc = false
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# What is Education?
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Education simply means "learning". It's a natural process.
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### Ratio of components in Education:
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50% Knowledge/Understanding, 30% Skills, 20% Experience.
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### Education vs Academics:
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Education and Academics are not the same thing. Academics is Education based of a curriculum and an institution. Plato discovered the word while describing his school of philosophy.
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#### Academics system has evolved with time and got worst. Let's see what the system has become nowadays:
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- Wrong ratio of knowledge, skill, experience (knowledge takes about 90%).
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- Generalised curriculum for all students.
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#### Extra bad:
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- Goals are only bound to exams/grades, degree or certifications (year 1088), then getting jobs.
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- Unhealthy pressure and competition for students.
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- Money game.
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- Politics.
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Education as a concept/implementation/system is good.
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Academics is good only as a concept. It's implementation and system is always the worst and corrupted.
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### Activities in Education:
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* Knowledge: Reading, listening, watching, feeling, thinking etc.
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* Understanding: Studying (literary, critical thinking, investigating), researching.
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* Skill: Practicing.
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* Experience: Time spending.
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### Read vs Study vs Research:
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1. Read: Reading is about watching or interpreting something/someone to gain knowledge.
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2. Study: Studying is about interpreting a topic, going deeper and gaining some conscious understanding out of it.
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3. Research: Research is about studying a topic and then contributing to it with changes from your end.
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* Reading relates with knowledge.
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* Studying relates with understanding.
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* Research relates with understanding and contributing.
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### Knowledge vs Entertainment:
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* Activities that are done for Knowledge/Understanding (reading, watching, listening, studying etc.) can also be done for Entertainment and vice versa.
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Example:
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1. The first book was to provide Knowledge/Understanding, but later books became a source of Entertainment (fiction).
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2. Videos can be used for both Knowledge/Understanding and Entertainment purposes. For example, for Knowledge/Understanding, there are documentaries, tutorial videos etc. For Entertainment, there are movies, funny videos etc.
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- All these are taken from my notes, all of which I like to write and think about deeply.
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