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If you are aware of the importance of our children's education, you should work hard to get the best for them at Eipimath. But education, which is not the same as school, is not among the main concerns of Spaniards.
What is the importance of education
• Education is not obtaining academic degrees
• Education is bringing out the best in everyone.
• It is to improve our relations
• It is teaching to think
• Education makes us freer
Education is not obtaining academic degrees
Education doesn't usually have much to do with getting good grades. School grades usually assess the literal reproduction of unique and previously established answers... in almost all stages of the educational system: from Early Childhood Education to university education. It also has nothing to do with obtaining academic degrees, postgraduate degrees, or doctorates. Unfortunately, education often distances itself from studies. I'm sure we know people with an education... who don't have relevant academic degrees.
Bring out the best in everyone
It may sound utopian and idealistic, but the reality is that education, on the one hand, is to bring out the best in each person, but on the other, it is also an individual responsibility to be able to develop all of one's possibilities.
It is to develop our relations
Educating is improving oneself, being a better person, in all areas, being happier, and being more balanced. I like pedagogy because, unlike other disciplines, we do not work with disorders, or with patients, we do not do therapy... those of us who dedicate ourselves to pedagogy educate, we simply help to improve, something that is always possible and with everyone without exception.
Learn to relate better
The importance of education also lies in the fact that it implies learning to relate better, to become more human, more sensitive to others, to take them into account, and to be more empathetic. An educated person treats others delicately, someone with whom you feel comfortable.
If we think about it, the great international conflicts that we are experiencing at the moment, the more local events of violence, or all the incidences that we have with others on a day-to-day basis... deep down they are problems of education.
Teach us to think
But the importance of education is also that it teaches us to think. Learning to think implies drawing personal conclusions, forming one's criteria, being critical, and not letting ourselves be carried away by what "others" want us to think, by what is "politically correct", and by what everyone does... Education means opening new alternatives and new perspectives, new paths, new possibilities, look for different solutions...
To educate, to think, we need to know and have the knowledge, but also some rudimentary tools such as knowing how to read, write, and reason.
Education makes us freer
Finally, the importance of education is that it makes us freer, yes, freer, what a danger! Less dependent, more masters of our destiny...
Are we aware of the importance of education? What are our priorities as educators, as mothers and fathers?
If we knew the importance of education, we would take this new course differently.