Education comes in many forms. There is the formal education, which is the kind of education that a student receives as a child from a school. Then there are the informal education, where a student receives a particular course of study from a teacher. In the informal education, students are encouraged to learn from other people and are taught to think for themselves. Lastly, there is the experiential education, where a student receives a course of study from a teacher that is not tied to a school.
Each of these forms of learning has its own purpose and benefits. When you learn through a formal school, you are expected to study a particular subject and learn the way you do. When you learn from other people through a teacher, you are encouraged to learn the way you have learned from other people. And when you learn through an experiential education, you are encouraged to learn what your teacher has learned.
The purpose of education is to change us. Learning is a process. A process that is not as linear as you might think. It’s not just an event that happens once and then you are done. Learning is a constant process that happens over and over again. When you learn from someone, you are encouraged to continue learning from that person, and when you are learning from a teacher, you are encouraged to continue learning from that teacher.
Education is a continual process, with different teachers and courses. Teachers are not a one-off. They help you learn. They help you develop, they help you grow. They help you understand what you don’t understand. They help you learn about yourself.
This is exactly the kind of lesson we expect from education in Germany. The schools are often called the teacher’s “cafeteria.” Students go to school, but they don’t eat. They only learn for a few hours a day. That’s not a bad thing, and it’s also not a bad thing to learn from teachers. We only learn from teachers because they are constantly looking for new ways to do what they already do well.
We can learn a lot from German teachers, but our German teachers are only ever looking for new ways to teach the same things they have already taught us. They have not yet figured out how to teach how to use our powers to kill others. They have not even figured out how to teach that we learn from them in different ways that we can use to kill others. They have not figured out how to teach us to be a better person than they are so they can be better teachers.
It’s a hard problem to figure out. If you can’t figure out how to teach something that other people already know, then it sounds like an impossible problem. And if you can’t teach something that people already know, then it sounds like a horrible problem. So what can we do as a society? We teach the same things as we have already taught people. We teach the same things we have already taught people to do.
When you teach something to someone, you are creating a contract. You have to do what you promised to be doing. You have to keep your promises. You must always keep your promises. People who live a life without contracts are less likely to make good decisions.
We’re not saying that every time a person has a contract they must keep it. We’re saying that every time someone has a contract they must keep it. This is the only way to teach people to remember what they told themselves and to keep the promises they did.
One of the biggest problems I see with education is that too many people have contracts that are so broad that they don’t have the specifics. They have the general idea, but they don’t have the specific details. They don’t know what they are signing away, but they think they are giving up their freedom. A contract is not just a promise to do something. It’s a promise to do something that’s important.