Educated....or not?
Educated….or not? I have heard in recent days (weeks/months) several people say things such as “this person is a well educated person, how can they possibly believe x..y…z…?” I find this INCREDIBLY intriguing, mostly because I have an advanced degree in education. That is, I was taught how people learn. How to educate. How people self educate. A lot of education or learning on a topic comes from a question. Sometimes that goes into a hypothesis or a theory on the topic, followed by either an experiment or research and results in a conclusion on the topic. It’s filtered through a lens in your brain of ‘this is true for me, for my life, valuable to me’ or ‘this is essentially worthless knowledge or false for me, I can let it go.’ That is how the learning process works in a human brain. You have to run the idea by things like morals you have in your life, data from research, applicability to your life, if you believe it to be true or useful. No two peoples’ l...