#mind # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related > [!NOTE]- Related # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Education %%Education, by Escher%% ![[1671435078745_Education__by_Escher.jpg]] > To be Educated means to Know something of value. To Know something that can transform a human life. To advance the life of man in a significant way. His being. His state. His inner condition. Is it not nonsensical? Rather than transforming the inner condition of man in order to prevent wars, humans are asked to go to "school" in order to relive and recite the details of the wars that have taken place. > ~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]] ![[DALL·E 2022-07-12 22.01.49 - A teacher in front of his black board, by Van Gogh.png]] [[The Internet]] made school obsolete. **Education** is about learning to learn, not trying to force data into brains (what school does). **Education** is about showing the direction to truth. After the end of the epoch of the royalties and the beginning of [[Democracy]], people thought that all man is born equal but in unequal circumstances, therefore **education** is required for all man. >Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is **education**. ~ [[Krishnamurti]] >If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don't attend. People should only teach what they have learned organically, through experience and curiosity ... or get another job ... ~ [[Nassim Taleb]] >The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think >~ [[Einstein]]