Beyond the classroom

Education is very important to all of us. We must be able to understand about different things around us. But not everything can be learned from school or from the books that we read. We also learn along the way with the experiences that life has taught us which makes us what we are today.

Learning education is not only limited inside the classroom or learned base on its basic components. Learning is a continuous process - in everywhere we go and everything we do there is a learning. School is an institution second to home that molded fundamental learning of every learner until he/she finished a baccalaureate degree in any filed they want. However, experience is actually the result of every activity that we have participated. It generates learning not only in terms of theory but mostly in actual scene and/or demonstration. Nevertheless, it is not beyond the learning that we learned in school. Why I said so? - experienced-wise, even if how skillful you are in terms of such particular job/work but your mastery lies only to actual experienced it will ended up only that way. Whereas, if you have mastered all the steps, procedures, technical, trouble shoots in theory coupled with exposure in the field of actual experienced, I am pretty sure that you excel and not stagnant only in one direction. Successful CEO's, COO's, Executives and those managerial positions doesn't qualify only those well-experienced but less education rather they will qualify those high standard professionals earning Masteral or Doctorate degrees coupled with experienced but education is the most-top requirements. Hence, for me, there's no such thing which beyond education or learning from school.

In my opinion, schools are only guiding the students. They give the basics and the students use them in complicated situations. Final tests are encountered outside the campus so it does not necessarily mean that all those people who excel inside the classroom will also excel outside. Schools only serve as a training ground. Just my thoughts.

I don't refute Learning in the classroom is a necessity because I am a teacher however I admit that most of the best lessons in the reality of life and about life does not come from the classroom but actual experiences outside the classroom. In my point of view learning in the school is not just learning how to compute mathematical equations or proving the theories through scientific experiments. Not just grammar or language or not just history. Formal education as we call it, forms us not just to have these knowledge but more on how to survive the challenges and tests. Hmmmm what do I mean by that. I meant, formal education form us to be patient, to be persistent, to try harder furthermore failure we can try again not give up. “The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett http://thinkexist.com/quotations/education/

We need both formal and informal education to succeed. What we learn outside school falls into the latter category and is a bigger part of our life education. The most important factor, however, would be a good human interaction, without which we will find it very hard to be successful.

In a recent classroom setting, in a class on education and being an educator, my professor said, "most things are 'caught' rather than 'taught'." I found this to be the truest statement I had ever heard, but it also frightened me. Having a child in high school and one in middle school I am just now beginning to see the things my children are "catching" that have nothing to do with formal education and everything to do with parents losing their rights to raise their own children. I often wonder if this is a state of Texas thing or if the entirety of the U.S. education system is leaning towards some of the mentalities that I see in my children's schools.

I agree that there is so much to learn from beyond the classroom. The knowledge we learn from the textbooks is far from enough, but good enough for taking examinations only. We have a saying that you can always find someone to be your teacher of three men walking together. Thank you for the discussion.

I think more learning can be done outside of a classroom than in. Most of what I learned in school, I have not used outside the classroom. Of course school of some sort is needed but I am just saying more can be learned in the real world...

Yes, I agree with you. School is just a learning institution and it cannot provide all the learning we should know and obtained. We are learning even in our house . We can learn even we are with our friends and other person not related with us. All the factors surrounds us, there we could learn from it.

Basically, schools are there to let us know how many steps we are going to take to our goals in life. It is the image so we can totally figure out want we want to do for our future. However, education is everywhere. We learned from our eperiences, mistakes and failure. We learned even from the people younger from us, from strangers, from all over the place and many more.

Yes! This is really true to children ages 4 to 12. Children really learn things from their experiences rather than what the teacher have thought to them. I am confirming this because I experienced this myself. I seldom listen to our teacher in school, instead, I always play outside. Break time at school is my favorite time. When I grow mature enough, my experiences shaped my well being. I will also do this to my kids. Hurrah!!!

learning is the way how we get the information, knowledge for everything in every field where we work. Make it learned as good habit or even as a hobby because we can not stop for learning, everyone can learning and teach what we can do as our expert. I believe every person their own ability that they can teach to other, even teach to smart people that dont have expert in not their field.

We can learn many things in classroom but applying them to real life is more important. I think practical oriented learning is the best to go. It gives us much greater exposure and we can learn in-depth by this approach.My experience in IT also tells me that you have to have real life examples to learn new things. Example is I can learn to drive my car in home also but going to a driving school is much better as it gives us more exposure to meet new friends and learn from there experience.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiousity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Sometimes just learning to survive can be the best education.Earning a living ,feeding your family ect.staying away from trouble or a mugger keeping safe.School learning is important ,getting results for a career are so important.It is what you learn when you leave school is just as important if not more.I always say "What does't kill you ,makes you stronger" I always treat my loved ones with the greatest of respect,but am very wary of the others untill I get to know them.I have learnt to take a step back and wait to see how the land lies these days.Trusting everyone is a big mistake.I have a good crowd of people and we stick together and help each other out.Best way for all of us.

I agree, many learn from even playing sports and other activities.

I agree with you. Daily we learn so many things base on what happens, base from experiences, from others as we interact with them. In school we learn the basics, we are required to pass the subjects in the curriculum as part of the process of learning and obtaining a degree. But apart from the academic status we achieve, our learning process do not stop from there, it is by integrating our knowledge from school and the experiences of the real world that matters.

learning is not only from classroom, learning our life our habit, our hobby, it will not be found in classroom. Yes, basic knowledge can reach in classroom teached at school, but so many matery, learning from out there. learning how we life is not from classroom. Learned what you like and learn more and be expert on that. Somehow, someday, somewhere, somebody will need your knowledge and knowing that you are expert in that field.

In classrooms we only gain theoretical knowledge but in outside world we experience the things practically and that practical knowledge decides what we become in life.

Yes school are foundations for basic education a man should have and also the specific profession his/her into but doesn't offer the full package of learning more about the so-called life. Likewise, how does money works for us not the other way around and some personal experiences that textbooks can't answer except our own personal experiences. Happy lotting!