Crashing Quote : Judging

" Everyone does judge others. However, let's judge people by their actions, not by their physical attributes or words. "

Impulsive Thought : Why Do We Need Education ?

Prompt : What is the function of education ?

I bumped into a magazine in my room, and then opened it, found something interesting talking about the function of education. Now, come to think about it, I never really contemplate regarding this matter. 

In my opinion, education has two kind of functions in the basis of its own definition. First, if we defined education as a process to get us noticed as an ‘educated’ person, then I guess the function of it would be as something which makes someone known as educated  person in the end. For example, you finished your high school years afterward you got a degree/certificate, finally you have become an educated person for studying 12-years long. Imagine this is somekind like a tool which helps us to get known or noticed as educated. 

Second, it’s completely different if we defined it as a process to learn something. From this definition, I can say that the function of education would be as something which makes someone knowing something from not knowing anything, basically. It’s more vast function, we can say to make us know how to think critically, how to differentiate right or wrong, or even how to behave morally. We can see that this function, it’s a lot more related to its process, and we basically can tell everyone educated if we used this term. For instance, someone have education in sewing clothes, then we can assume he/she has proper knowledge about sewing after education even thou he/she has never attended school, so eventually, he/she still can be called educated in terms of sewing. We can illustrate this function as a tool to develop us in many ways by getting to know something from no knowledge. 

If I may to summarize my own thoughts, so basically we can say it more makes sense to pick the second definition compared to the first one, but looking at the current reality of my own country, I guess first definition could be acceptable as well, literally. Personally, I agree more into the second one of course, I believe education is a process to help us getting our maximum development in terms of not only intelligence but also character. You can dream of a world with full of intelligent people but no morality there, that would be cruel, and also vice versa. So I guess, that is the true function of education.

P.S. : The written thing above was purely existed from the author’s authentic random thoughts, not from the basis of researches, or opinion of others. Well just to avoid those people who would like to judge thing before knowing the real thing and to state that nobody’s perfect, basically. Last, the author does have a freedom to give opinion right? Thank you.

Pondering : Success Definition ?

Reaching a successful life is something that most people or possibly everyone dreams of. However, in my opinion, there are a lot of successes in this life, we can say a lot of people reaching that, but at the same page, we cannot say everyone successful. Mostly, we merely can say that success is defined by either power, money, or simply popularity. But still, what factors do actually make someone having a successful life? When can we say someone successful? I wonder.

So my curiosity got in my mind, I googled some definitions about success. Here they are :

Oxford’s definition :

Merriam Webster’s definition :

If  you see it above, it’s completely almost the same definition which I have thought before, and Business Insiders even agreed that this definition wasnt enough yet. Thus, they mentioned several kind of definitions there, and it varied from not simply having power and money to success is one’s personal choice. Moreover, I read it on fairfaxcountyeda.org, success has more definitions than ever based on Ms. Linda Seger pointed through her intriguing thoughts there. Inc on the other hand, defined success by simply listing executives from business world which I found kind of distinct from my expectation. 

Overall, after skimming to all these articles and Mr.Google’s findings, I can barely say that success is completely one’s life fulfillments resulting from one’s key life realizations, and it can be anything from power, money, making change, and many others. Nevertheless, I dont really like this summary which I have made  to be honest cause I dont find any researches talking about life success’ metrics, but hopefully later,  I would definitely update this if I found one, or I guess my curiosity is way too general for a research topic.