Do you think information kills education? I think it may... PS: I was gonna put this on the philosophy section but it's too religious. I think the philosophy section has been perceived as "theology" by the admin, webmaster or whoever.
Wouldn't it be nice to go back in history when all the "education" you needed was how to provide food and shelter for yourself and family. I was watching a documentary on a tribe in Africa that lives completely harmonius with nature, and I was so jealous. They work only a few hours a day and there are no schools for parents to ship their kids off to. They are as educated as they need to be, and living a hell of a lot better than us. BUT since we can't all go back to that, we need technology, science, and medicine as a crutch in order to keep ourselves sustained. DOn't know if that's all what you meant or not, but there's my answer
actually I was referring to "deconstruction". education gives you a "brick" of knowledge and when you pile up those bricks in a certain form of architecture it becomes a building (sciences and technology). Some thinkers say, since "the only thing that does not change is the change itself" what we've gotten to know also changes. Which means the "knowledge brick" we've taken into our building via education (architecture), also needs to be modified. Some examples to these "knowledge bricks" may be the so-called scientific propositions: "the world is flat, atom can not be divided" and etc. People say since what we use to build the building changes, we dont have any solid, rational material left to construct the building. This is deconstruction. Some people (like karl popper) claim that scientific "brick" should be open to modifications (scientific knowledge should be open to refutation). So it's a little controversial issue. About the hunter-gatherer and horticultural tribes: Recent theories claim that something might have "forced" hunter gatherers (HG) to start farming because calorie and nutrition experiments conducted on aboriginal people suggest that they (HGs) lived a better life than those of farming tribes (such as the sumerians, hitits, egyptians and etc.) Because they (HGs) dont have surplus, there used to be a rather equal social hiararchy, almost none. No slavery, more free time to be spent individually, better nutrition and better socialising (hunting, making tools and etc). But since farming communities had better organization through despotisim (religious and later national) they had armies to crush those HGs (in Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, the Sudan, Haiti, Java and etc.)
Education is more than just learning facts and figures but, knowing how to use the facts and figures.
What also must be present in education, in conjunction with the accumulation of the knowledge "bricks" you discuss, is the teaching of analysis and reason so that one is able to judge how and when to challenge the status quo, and what to do with the information and experience gained in these endeavors.
