Today my pockets hurt.
I do so enjoy purchasing new books. The crisp, clean sheet just waiting to be turned – to be highlighted and written up. The promise those pages hold for the coming year.
It is a joy for me to have the pleasure of purchasing my law books. (I am very proud of what I am doing as you can see) but it also causes me great concern and financial grief. These books like many others are not cheap. How can one afford to buy all these texts!
Education should be free, enjoyable. It should bring pleasure. In its intricacies and our lack of our understanding it should come to us as a challenge, which it does, for when we do understand it we will have conquered it.
But why must we pay to have knowledge?
Of course having said all this I understand that it is money that makes the world work. Money that the vast amount of people crave for, pine and desire and lust after. With money comes great power alas it is not always the most kind and knowledgeable people who have it.
Perhaps one day we shall feel free to congregate and teach our fellow man our specialities our expertise. Perhaps we will come to sit around a table and exchange what others have taught us.
“... to enter freely into a lecture room and feel pleasure to listen to our tutors, to not feel compelled as if it were a chore and a bore to complete assignments. After all one day it is that knowledge in which we place our hope to provide us a career, a future. It is that knowledge that will guide us into the real world... that all in which we will depend on...”
“Knowledge is the foundation of Life...”
I agree education should be free, its bad enough to pay £3000 but you also have to buy the books :-(.
ReplyDeleteEducation is sadly not a right but a privlidge, or so it's advertised to be.
ReplyDeleteWe are living in a world where 50% of our local population crave understanding and go to university and the other half stay around having children with no desire to improve.
something's going wrong. The rise in tuition fees is only going to increase this gap.
My opinion:
ReplyDeleteIts the way people are being brought up. They are being taught the wrong things. Influences such as meaningless celebrities and other such nonsense.
Slave morality as Nieztche says.
As long as the media feed them it they will keep swallowing rubbish.
We are the minority that are lucky enough to see the world's beauty and I am ever greateful.