Do you think schooling interferes with education?

Question

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." (Mark Twain)

Answer 1

Yea, if someone get's totally schooled by a bully, then it interferes with education.

Answer 2

Yes.

You can get an education in a school but you can also go to school and not get an education.

Teachers can teach using all kinds of gimmicks, gadgets and methods but unless a person wants to learn,  the teachers have not  really taught anything.

Answer 3

I think what he's trying to say is that he's never let his education (intelligence) interfere with his common sense (wisdom).

Answer 4

The current American form of schooling does indeed interfere with education.

Grouping children together in mass age-group categories messes up the natural ability of the student.  Children that are quick thinkers and capable of moving ahead quickly through academic material are held back in order to let the so-called "slow" students keep up.  Children that are detail oriented and seemingly "slow" to process material and information are put into Special Education classes and given puzzles and games to keep them busy.  They are not challenged with the material that they need to succeed.

Children that are hyperactive and into tearing things down and building things are labeled as ADD and put on medication to make them all the same -- little robots without the ability to explore and bounce around the room.

The current school system in America is sadly geared toward producing mass clones of same-thinking parrots.  

The community will be better off with a variety of skills, thoughts, and energies.  Children that are taught to learn by teaching themselves are able to think for themselves and process information.  If they hear something and are allowed to question it they can go to the source and know how to discern if something is true or false.

Education should never be about schools.

"Schools are for fish".

Answer 5

I think everyone needs some schooling, to learn the mechanics of how to learn and to research.  But to educate yourself takes a lifetime of dedicated desire to overcome our own ignorance.

Cheers

Lisa

Answer 6

That depends on the kind of school u are in. I enjoyed my schooling with a lot of freedom, and lot of friends to play with. I also enjoyed learning at school, but never liked the teachers though!!! Home was a place to relax and play (and fight) with siblings and to enjoy moms love and good food. I hated to open text books at my home.  I even tried to complete my homeworks at school to play and watch TV at home!!!

Answer 7

Definitely. And things are even worse now than when Mark Twain was alive. More hours spent in school now than back then, more focus on testing (which doesn't even actually prove an educational level), more time spent socializing and trying to impress others with material possessions or certain activities, all time spent with roughly same-aged peers instead of the mixed classes of back then (a mixed social group obviously lends itself to a broader social education than does a single-aged group)...

Education is so much more than the academics at school, or even the "fake" mini-society at school. There are things such as knowing how to pursue interests, solving real problems instead of fake scenarios presented--and tested upon--in class, learning to take care of yourself in all aspects, having a sense of self, learning to self-direct and so much more. With school time today taking up roughly 7 hours of time, plus travel to and from school, plus a typical 1+ hours of homework a night... Where's the time to get all the other stuff in?

Answer 8

Noo not really.

Answer 9

Public schooling does.   Being made to keep pace with the dumbasses of the class and only prepping for standardized testing benefits no one.

Answer 10

i think it does....because the fact of me having to go to school didnt work out...im being home schooled now...the government should deffinitly make other options then sending ur kids to "School"

Answer 11

Yes of course it does.

Answer 12

Education is an on-going process but schooling's not.

There lies the difference.

To address your Q, I would say that "schooling" begins @ home but education is a lifetime experience and remains one's prerogative.

There's "no inteference", they both will meld, but only if they're viewed in their own right.

Answer 13

no

Answer 14

Public education does. When they forget what an education is and get wrapped up in administration. Which is why my children will be home schooled. The public education system destroyed my will to learn, and as a result, I did the BARE minimum to get by.

Answer 15

Yep. The idea of the Prussian system is to create obedient soldiers. The supposed learning is a PR move.

Answer 16

Oh yes! School is nothing but a brainswashing cult giving you nothing but their own interpretations and opinions. School should only be necessary in areas like medicine or law. Everything else can strictly be self-taught.