Are we learned individuals or are we just mere academic parrots?
By penstripes
@penstripes (42)
Philippines
September 13, 2010 4:29am CST
Way back in my university days when I was majoring in Psychology, we define learning as a process by which a relatively lasting change in behavior occurs as the outcome of practice and/or experience. It made think about a lot of things and raise questions that even Socrates would have a hard time contemplating. (Well, that's an exaggeration!) lol For one, various school systems around the world tried to educate their students to become the best in this and the best in that. To become competent and dependable. To be responsible and socially conscious. But look where we are today? Have we really learned anything? Is humanity advancing with all the graduates we produced each year? Or are we just regressing that before we know it all we will be seeing are the products of our own hallucinations. What do you think my fellow mylotters? Are we learned individuals or are we just mere academic parrots? lol
1 response
@kmaram (2533)
• Philippines
13 Sep 10
actually I myself is also confused..hehehe =).. take a look at this situation, when a twins was born then they live separately from each other. one grew up in a high class family and the other grew up in squatters area. both of them can inherit the attitude of the people surrounding them though they came from a same parent. so just like in school, I guess it depends on the kind of school he enters that will define what he will be in the future. though he carried the characteristics of, for example being intelligent, it is more nurtured in the kind of school he came from. because what he would do to that intelligence if it will not be nurtured.
