In the modern mind, "education" is all about young people developing skills that are useful to their future selves. Learn to read, learn to write, learn to program. Skills that will enable them to function in society, and make a good living. Education as job training.
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Perhaps even more essential is the realization that education is about maximally concretizing human potential. It is about leading each individual towards the best version of themselves -- about identifying and expressing what they *could* be, in a best-case scenario.
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Education is about collectively turning our civilization into its best possible future. Education is open-ended optimization over the space of possibilities. It isn't merely job training.
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Generally, the internet has opened a world of education up to the young people who desire to pursue non academic interests. I am amazed by the information my children possess from being curious about the natural world, als encouraged not all skills we be lost to time & progress
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How about education of computers who have an unbounded storage for memories? Is there education different? As humans what is important to not forget?
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