Yesterday I composed a fifth card to upload in Slide Share, a site to upload and exchange presentations an other materials I learnt about in Pedro Cuesta's course on the possibilities of the Web 2.0 I took about ten months ago. I decided to refresh some previous knowledge during this Christmas vacation. It was encouraging, I was able to upload the material and explore the possibilities of the site without much trouble.
What I did yesterday reinforced my ideas about education and learning even more. We must study to pass courses and build up a CV, of course, but this is only the immediate first goal, we must study, and enjoy studying, to be able to learn knowledge and techniques that will be useful to us in different aspects of our lives -either serious work or pastime-. We should always keep this in mind in moments of disappointment.
I'd like to stress something I mentioned yesterday: In the present period of economic and social crisis the role of education becomes crucial not only to grant the transmission of knowledge and skills but also to strengthen individual and social stability. A person who abandons his/her studies and becomes idle runs the risk of developing antisocial, nihilistic habits that would make his/her possibilities of reintegration very difficult when a new period of prosperity arrives. This leads to a paradox: the present economic crisis helps to stress the relevance of education in terms of learning, in terms of social texture, in terms of constructive and positive individual and collective habits.
I hope you like this fifth card!
What I did yesterday reinforced my ideas about education and learning even more. We must study to pass courses and build up a CV, of course, but this is only the immediate first goal, we must study, and enjoy studying, to be able to learn knowledge and techniques that will be useful to us in different aspects of our lives -either serious work or pastime-. We should always keep this in mind in moments of disappointment.
I'd like to stress something I mentioned yesterday: In the present period of economic and social crisis the role of education becomes crucial not only to grant the transmission of knowledge and skills but also to strengthen individual and social stability. A person who abandons his/her studies and becomes idle runs the risk of developing antisocial, nihilistic habits that would make his/her possibilities of reintegration very difficult when a new period of prosperity arrives. This leads to a paradox: the present economic crisis helps to stress the relevance of education in terms of learning, in terms of social texture, in terms of constructive and positive individual and collective habits.
I hope you like this fifth card!
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