I am in my first year of college studying to become a nurse and I need to write an essay based on the quote by Mark Twain saying "Dont let your schooling get in the way of your education"
My teacher told me that the definition of schooling is your street smarts and learning from good or bad experiences and life lessons. And that the education part of it means book smarts, and being in class.
He said we can switch the quote up and do "dont let your education get in the way of your schooling" as well.
Im just really confused and he clarified it up for me but I got lost again. I would like to hear your take on the quote.
I believe in Dont let your schooling get in the way of your education but I dont have valid reasons to write descriptiveness on it. I believe it is this one because you should not let people put you down by saying you are stupid so that would be the schooling and that dont let it get in the way of your education and work your hardest to prove that person wrong. Im not sure though. Pleaseee help!!
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Sorry for the second post but thought of analogy to show you what the quote means.
In the 30's and 40's in Nazi Germany the masses were taught (schooled) to believe that Jews were sublevel humans. The educated knew that this was not true.
Sorry for the second post but thought of analogy to show you what the quote means.
In the 30's and 40's in Nazi Germany the masses were taught (schooled) to believe that Jews were sublevel humans. The educated knew that this was not true.
I'm a big WWII history fan.
When the Valkyrie movie came out I freaked. I remember having done a paper on how many groups there were withing Germany, made up of German citizens, who tried to get to Hitler.
I think he means not to bury your nose in the books and get so caught up in the schooling you miss out on the education. Don't get so hung up on the 4.0 that you don't learn about life along the way.
I think that it means to sort through the BS of what you're tought, and find out for yourself what is real. Just because a teacher or a book tells you something doesn't make it true. This is why it is also important to critique research on your own, and not to rely on a journal publishing "good" studies.
My car was running badly a while back, it would miss and sputter intermittently. I took it to a well schooled mechanic who hooked it up to a computer, mulled over it for some time, and said he couldn't find anything wrong. I then took it to an old educated mechanic in town who popped the hood, looked at the smooth running engine for a few minutes, took out his pocket knife, and tapped the top of my mass airflow sensor, and the car immediately started to miss and sputter. He had it fixed within the hour.
You cannot get educated in schools, that takes life.
My car was running badly a while back, it would miss and sputter intermittently. I took it to a well schooled mechanic who hooked it up to a computer, mulled over it for some time, and said he couldn't find anything wrong. I then took it to an old educated mechanic in town who popped the hood, looked at the smooth running engine for a few minutes, took out his pocket knife, and tapped the top of my mass airflow sensor, and the car immediately started to miss and sputter. He had it fixed within the hour.
You cannot get educated in schools, that takes life.
Reminds me of my late father-in-law; never had formal mechanical/engineering training, but he could drive any vehicle around the block, park it and tell you what was wrong with it. He picked up most of his knowledge knocking around the country with a travelling fairground.
Did you go to school to learn how to feed yourself, dress yourself, or to speak? They all involved learning, aka education. Life is an education from birth to death. Schooling is a finite, structured, and thus limited process. I didn't learn that in school. In fact I never thought of it that way until you asked the question. HEY! I've been educated! Thanks.
Reminds me of my late father-in-law; never had formal mechanical/engineering training, but he could drive any vehicle around the block, park it and tell you what was wrong with it. He picked up most of his knowledge knocking around the country with a travelling fairground.
...which just goes to show you, that experience remains the most valuable type of education.
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Schooling is the act of being taught in a formal manner. Education is what we learn from the schooling, life experiences, mistakes, etc..