Education is known as the act of imparting knowledge to others. It is the process of facilitated learning. While many students often feel their grades to be the "be-all, end-all" of their existence, education is about so much more than just "good grades".
Education is not solely about taking notes and memorizing facts in order to pass a test. Rather, it is the focus of what provides us with the skills we need in order to question others, advocate for our own beliefs, think critically, and make the world a better place. Education is about the journey, not the destination.
No one is perfect. We don't always get the math problem correct and we don't always fully grasp the meaning of the required summer reading. The amazing thing about education is that there is always a different strategy that can be taught to us that can help us solve that math problem, and there is always a new perspective we can look at in order to more effectively analyze the literature. Education is about understanding. It is about using all that we have learned in order to look at things in a new way. It is about trying to figure out the "why".
We, as people, never stop learning. Life is an on-going journey; a learning process, and we have no idea of knowing where it will lead us. We must remember, however, that true higher learning means learning how to think rather than what to think.
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