Learning how to eat a steak with intellectual sizzle

[coberst]

Learning how to eat a steak with intellectual sizzle

 

In grades K-12 we have had teachers take us by the hand and introduce us to new domains of knowledge in slow incremental steps. The teacher takes us only to that part of knowledge that our minds were prepared to comprehend. The teacher cuts our intellectual food into bite size portions for easy digestion.

 

If we go to college we find that our class scheduling catalog details for us what are the prerequisites of any course in which we might wish to enroll. If we do not have the proper preparation then we cannot enroll in that course. The catalogue prevents us from attempting knowledge for which we are unprepared.

 

Our educational system has protected us from attempting to learn that for which we were unprepared. We have grown in knowledge under this umbrella of protection; however, we are left unprepared for the task of independent learning. Our educational system has left us without the intellectual dental structure required for independent learning.

 

After our educational system is finished with us we must, on our own, learn how to become independent learners; the first thing we must recognize is that we must not reject an idea because it is not easily digested. When we are not taken by the hand and incrementally introduced we will often meet ideas for which we are not prepared to deal. If we reject every idea about which we are not prepared to learn we will never learn anything new after our school daze are over.

 

If our response to everything unique to us is “I do not comprehend it so I will reject it” we will never be able to learn new stuff.

 

Our mothers and our teachers have been cutting our intellectual food into bite size portions throughout our young life.

 

If we reject a juice steak in the future because it is not cut to bite size we will be eating nothing but that which can be swallowed whole for the rest of our life.

 

Do you think that your education has left you intellectually toothless?

 

 

First Mother Fly: How's the new baby?

 

Second Mother Fly: Very restless. I had to walk the ceiling with him all night.

[ErlyRisa]

here here

 

gen Y is already padded so much they are scared to cross the road without a yellow vest.

[HydrogenBond]

Steak may be an exaggeration; education starts with milk, first breast feeding until one can study on their own and drink from a glass. Only after one develops critical thinking are they ready for solid food. Specialization cuts up the steak into tiny pieces. It is a very tough steak requiring a lot of chewing. Generalization is a more tender steak that one can eat in bigger chunks. The bigger chunks cover more intellectual area and allows one to compare. Once you can think independently, you get a knife and can feed yourself.

 

Most people are trained to cut little pieces off the tough steak of specialization. One can chew a tiny piece for years since it it needs to be as fine as dust before one is allowed to swallow it. A tender steak will have marbling, which is fat. The fat is stored energy, which adds flavor to steak. This is general thinking combined with speculation, that offers both energy and flavor. It may not be pure beef, i.e, some fat, but it is easier to chew large pieces. It is not pure protein like specialization, but one gets more beef in the end.