Educate Yourself!

The internet can be used as a powerful tool for growth; you can learn many things by yourself!

Academic education is not the key to wisdom. Knowledge involves many facets of learning: emotional, relational, experiential, philosophical (what you see as the VALUE of learning), reflective, relevance, agentic, and – also – academic.

Wisdom cannot be attained through academic learning alone.

          “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.”   – W.B. Yeats

Sir Ken Robinson reminds us that education is creative, liberating and fun:

How to escape education’s death valley

www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley

RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&t=453s

Based on his amazing 2006 TED talk: www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity