
Stop Acquiring Education and Start Learning.
I believe education is overrated. Especially in the 21st century.
Why is the cost of education still so high even with the advancement of technology. Has it not been the case that in many other sectors, the cost of goods and services is inversely proportional to their associated technologies? Why is acquiring education different? I believe it is because we are hooked to the System and think that without education we cannot build a proper and civil society. Before Education came, humans were learning.
We have come to think that acquiring education is the same as learning. It is not. Education is a system that is intended to put some structure to learning, while learning is the real act of acquiring knowledge or skill through study, experience or being instructed.
Being taught in school is not the only way to learn. Autodidacticism which is the act of self-learning or self-teaching is a more effective way to learn.
The availability of all sorts of quality information on the internet, a large percentage of which are free of charge has made it even easier to self teach. If you think you cannot afford college tuition, Ditch college. You can acquire the same quality of information at a relatively lower cost or even for free and you have the freedom to do that at your own pace. Very soon a college decree will be irrelevant. This is already happening. many tech startups are hiring people without certificates but projects to show for what they claim to know.
You have a first degree?, that’s more than enough for your future. No first degree?, you can get one almost for nothing.
10 Fundamental differences between Education and Learning.
1. Education requires a classroom, learning does not
2. Education requires you to be taught by a tutor or an instructor, learning does not
3. Education determines your success by a set of predefined criteria, learning determines your success by actually accomplishing a task
4. When you acquire education you are unable to reproduce in real life situations, when you learn your knowledge is applicable to real life situations.
5. Education is overly expensive. Learning is virtually free.
6. Education demands completion within a set period, learning never completes and is done at your own pace
7. Education confines you to a system, learning liberates one from routine and regiment
8 Education is limited in its methods. Learning is diverse.
9 Education is useless without learning. Learning does not depend on education
10. Education produces conformists. Learning produces thinkers and problem solvers
Instead of spending 4 –7 years and thousands of dollars acquiring education, invest the same amount of money in something that will yield dividend over the period of time for which you are self -teaching. By time you feel ready with your knowledge acquisition, you would have a startup capital for your business idea. The best thing about self-teaching is that, it takes a shorter period of time.
