Friday, November 21, 2014

Eager-learner

"...I only enlighten those who are eager to learn and arouse those who are bubbled to give their own explanation..." - Confucius

Students of today's generation, whether we accept it or not, are only obligated to go to school, and are not really eager to do so. Obligated, in the sense that it is only in respect to one's 'want' or 'need'. Maybe he/she wants to have an excellent job with an indubitable high income, or maybe he/she needs to, because it enables him/her to sustain such of the needs of the family he/she could have. Or it could be other's 'want' or 'need', like your father wants you to graduate or like your mother who needs you to finish studying for it will somehow decrease the risk of her heart ailment. 

To make the long story short, they are not eager to study. They just want to finish studying because of this and that, but they are not really into learning; they simply don't learn anything at all.

But when a man is really eagered to study, to learn more, and to be critical, it will really become a great form of education. Because in that way, a student will not rely only to what the teacher is offering in his/her discussions, activities, etc. In other words, the student will not be subservient; a yes-man. Subservient, is when a person submits to what the other is saying, no matter what are the consequences, as long as he/she was told this and that, he/she, like a shitty dog, will believe or follow. Indeed shitty, -passive! But when a student will come up with new ideas, even if it is right or wrong, as long as it is not only what the teachers give, thus, there is indeed an education. 

Why waste time and effort (and money) to a thing you thought as "education" that is actually not at all education? Right?

2 comments:

  1. "Eager" is not a verb but an adjective, a description of an emotion. Therefore, it has no past tense: "eagered"!

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  2. I do not see the connection between your title, "The Value of Teachability," and your essay about the difference between "obligated" and "eagered" students. I do not see THINKING being put into this blog; I only see THOUGHTLESS SPEECH.

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