When the
dictionary defines ‘education’ as an enlightening experience, or the
facilitation of the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and
habits, the ‘school, college or university’ is used to exemplify source or
access, but it’s preceded by the adverb “especially” – meaning: for the most
part.
Now, does this
definition preclude the fact that it’s an education to watch a good workman work?
Would I be wrong to say that Jatto Ceesay is educated in the art of football,
or some unlettered Sarahuleh entrepreneur in the art of moneymaking, et cetera?
That’s what I thought.
Benjamin
Franklin is credited with this saying: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I
may remember, involve me and I learn.” if you ask me why, I'll say because
there are people who learn best by doing.
Well, it’s
just unfortunate that here, not all educated minds have educated hearts, and it
takes both to be really educated. Here, hearts are so resentful that it hurts
some academic supremacists to see differently-educated people doing extremely
well without a college attendance certificate.
I hate to say
this, and it’s me being optimistic. Before our hearts are as educated to
appreciate hard skills just as we do abstract learning, and to differentiate
between idealised capacity (competence) and performance, swear down the rest of
humanity would finally be living on planet Mars, and we’ll be here wretched,
lonely, “Building The New Gambia” or trying to overstand the concept of
democracy, NAWEC doing what it does best, because the “qualified” engineers
cannot engineer ‘furrno-kerign’ let alone generate electricity - talk about
behind the times.
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