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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCHOOL AND EDUCATION.


Albert Einstein once said: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
I bring before you today the revelation that makes for freedom: Giving you insight that culminates into liberty.

There has been a gross misconception of "School And Education," which has always left the majority of us uneducated while we claim to be educated due to some possession of some sort of qualifications from a couple of schools that we have forgotten what we have been taught.
If Albert Einstein said: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." Then, there is a vast difference between"School And Education."


Initially, school was designed to train or prepare factory workers.
The school classroom is a factory-model classroom which was inspired by the approach Horace Mann observed in Prussia, in the year 1843, which adequately prepared the mind and mentals of the American youth for the 20th century industrialized economy. That tells us the reason why every graduate seek a job and not inventions nor creative work, but seeking industries to lay down their lives after almost two decades attendance in schools.


Schools has always taught us how to sit in a row, raise hand when you have questions, no disorderly manners of disturbance, which is also the same method applied in factories.


School test different individuals via same means: Introverts, Bi-troverts, and extroverts all placed on same scale and weighed. Those that seem underweight are labeled failures, and uneducated, while those that are over weight and within specified weight are labeled the good students. What a failure to start with by school it self while examination results are not supposed to determine our fate not our careers.
In my opinion school should be made a place where students are taught how to educate themselves to prepare them for the real world like they say.


The function of education is to inform oneself to think intensively and to think critically, creatively, to develop Intelligence and character. This is the aim of true education. Education is largely a function of transforming information. John F. Kennedy said: "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." This advancement are never taught in school.


Being informed about issues is what makes you educated in that field: Shakespeare was educated in the art of his writing, Bill Gate is educated in softwares, Oprah Winfrey is educated in the art of media shows, Richard Branson, about flight, Henry Ford, about Automobiles.
Education is not about filling our heads with countless codes, key words, and formulas, but the ability to share transforming informations and also put it to work transforming others and our environment by using them to solve problems.


Education has nothing to do with the accumulation of laurels but with the accumulation of life transforming informations at every point in time. Such is education, and the joy of being educated is the ability to solve your own problems, and not seeking for your problems to be solved.
To have once been ignorant is not stupid, to remain ignorant is the stupidity of all.


There is nothing wrong with not knowing, but it is wrong to know that you don't know and not to do something about what you don't know.




Peace...

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE if a black could become the president of America.

I tried to be more creative all the time, but the people that sees this, echo "impossible" all the time. Impossible a problem posed by society, posed by everyone of us, created by our own mind a problem that exist in our imagination and now an anthem and embedded into the dictionary and unconsciously we live it.

"impossible," So, I was inspired to look up the word impossible. Look what I found.
Impossible : something that cannot be done, not capable of occurring or being accomplished, totally unlikely, something that can't be dealt with.

Now Follow me:
This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo, 1878

What use could this company make of an electrical toy? - Western Union president William Orton, responding to an offer from Alexander Graham Bell to sell his telephone company to Western Union for $100,000.
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. - Editorial in the Boston Post (1865)

Note: Today, Apple makes over $7.8 billion dollars from iPhones.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. - Lee DeForest, 1926 (American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube.)
[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. - Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.

Note: Yesterday, online, I came across a T.V sold and installed for $127,000. A piece of device that was once criticised.
GOD Himself had to interrupt the towel of Babel, because, what the people had determined to do was possible.
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

Apollo 11 blasted off on July 16, 1969. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module
With these, I don't need my parents, teachers, friends, and even books to tell me what I can't do.
I have no doubt that... If Jesus, tarries, we would invent a medium of placing a direct call to GOD via a cell phone.
You can do all things, nothing is impossible.

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert Schuller
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” – G. M. Trevelyan

“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.” – Sir Walter Scott
“Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.” – Anonymous
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander the Great

I just tore the word impossible out of my dictionary.

Today is the first day of my life, breaking out of the shell like a chick being through incubation, the rays of the sun light hit my pupils, I cupped them to observe my environment as I looked ahead, the path to the future seem endless, I looked inward filled with potentials, and my heart beat, pounding heavily like a sledge hammer hitting a rock by a sunny sea side while the water slaps away at the bottom of the rock causing the same rock to sparkle on the side while going through the pain of the hammer, Gosh! The heart could pain like some cold pain most especially when we are unfulfilled with potentials, dynamites that must go some place to happen. This path that I have to go, the only compass is GOD Himself; as He says from the pages of scriptures: "I AM THE LORD GOD WHO LEADS YOU IN THE WAY THAT YOU SHOULD GO..."

Life has been brooding over me, a long time I have held my peace, but now, brooded over, having been taught the basics of survival, I'd just break new grounds and survive taking my teacher-life by surprise the kind America had when they saw Kanye West return from the fatal accident and making a hit in the music industry like shattering a glass in a long time silence.

Today is the first day of my life, breaking, breaking out of the shell like a chick after the process of incubation: One thing I have learnt, that there is a path for every potential that must come up to the surface to thrive.

That is a preamble, now look at it this way: The potential of a forest is in a seed, that of clothings are in the wool, that of an inferno is in a match stick, that of a giant of a man of fulfilled destiny is in a little sperm that is in the loins of another, built to last as i am made, my potentials are dangerously within me seeking expressions like forever, even the humorous king of New York Jay Z, longs for forever, ha ha haa... So, he said forever young, talking about immortality, we discuss this another day, the matter at hand now is the discovery of potentials planted in the heart of men that must be discovered, brought to the surface, shaped, polished, and utilized for the future ahead like an arrow � set out for its prey-target.

See this, the potential of google was just in a scrap of codes, that of a mansion is always in a couple of pebbles, the potential of a nation is in her youths, that of Instagram was just in a piece of camera, while that of Microsoft has always been in Bill Gate, same way Steve Jobs was pregnant with that of Apple � until it was birthed, Sir, Walt Disney unleashed that of Disney land for every kid to thrive, learn, have fun and grow, ask Richard Branson, and you'd know what it is like to deal in flight, and Oprah Winfrey's got a whole lot to tell about the T.V... Potentials.

You need to realize that you are more than a stuffed bear but with potentials for to change the world... Finding and utilizing them is what will ease the pains of the world: THE WHOLE WORLD WAITS EARNESTLY FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD.- Romans 8:19
Think about it, you are not just here, but here to unleash your potentials. What are they?

Knock, knock, knock... Oh! It was just a dream.