Q: Why not study education?

Q: Why not study education?

A: Because in all this morass of future-less-vivid-conditionals, there’s one thing that seems clear to me: the way to teach is to learn to learn. Just as the way to learn to write is to read a lot, just as the way to learn car mechanics is to work on a car, things must be experienced directly to be known, and therefore to be taught. Being taught to teach, I suppose, can be moderately helpful - but the real way to be taught to teach is to be well taught in something else.

One Comment to “Q: Why not study education?”

1. Moss remarked:
   

   The useful thing I can imagine coming from studying education is getting a better understanding of what’s up with children, which might make it easier to teach them.

   July 29th, 2002 at 1:58 pm

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