High Education for Life - Part I

May 21, 2010

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Is Education one of the most important aspects in a person's life? I dare to say yes!

Our learning begins at the same time as our life begins. Before we are born. After that very first moment, to succeed in the surviving skill we need to learn, we need to be educated.

We can say that water and food are essential to live, and of course it is true. And it is also true that a human being recently born is an extremely weak being, he needs to learn everything. To obtain essential food and water he needs to learn how to be fed from another human being. It is an instinctive learning.

So that, perhaps obviously, we can assure that Education is an extremely important and a "vital" matter. We have seen till now the basic meaning of Education. But let's focus now the term Education related to "school" , specially to &#&High Education&#&, and its huge importance in a human's life.

At home you were educated in a lot of skills. You needed them just to be alive, to successfully grow up. In addition to vital skills you also learnt about a whole bulk of values, feelings, thoughts, ideas that will accompany you for the rest of your life. Now the time has come for the "school world".

When you started taking classes as a little person, let's say, at kinder garden, or at primary school you began to learn not only numerals and alphabets. Perhaps the main skill you had to learn was how to interact between your peers and with your teachers. What to do outside the warm and sure walls of home. What to do to be accepted. What to do to be loved. You learnt to feel fine between your new friends. The most comfortable you felt made it easier to obtain new knowledge.

From the very beginning you began to achieve much more than just the knowledge you were supposed to study, or to remember, or to practice. You began to learn about good emotions and bad ones. You began to learn how to act in a social gathering, how to manage and how to control your emotions. With whom you could share your feelings. When things went wrong, you discovered how to recover yourself. And you also learnt how and with whom to celebrate a successful achievement.