“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.”
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We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.