Responsability of your education

          Léandre NGABIRANO,student,faculty of Psychology,University of Burundi

       What you ought to bear in mind:

                    The purpose of education is not to equip you with knowlegde you gonna use in your daily life ,to secure a job or score a career goal .Education is no longer learning from somebody else mastering  a concept to be reproduced when sitting a test.It is self-learning and learning by doing as LOCKE put it out.The reason why we attend school is the simple fact that all humans need to awaken their curiosity often slumbering within them.

                    The whole philosophy of education in this century is tailored to awaken the curiosity of the child.That is how we are supposed to learn.Platon,a great greek philosopher put it out before this way: "Knowledge and its apprenticeship are on the side of the learner" ( from course syllabus ,Histoire critique de l'Education by Gaudence NIYONSABA).These men existed in quite different times, but both of them stressed on the fact that the learner is responsible for his learning. Platon existed in 200BC.Rousseau was among the leading thinkers of the 18th AD and his writings came to effect a new era in the field of education.His book titled 'Emile ' served and is still  pictured as a reference and a source of the modern pedagogy.

                  So  the responsability of one's education remains a personal endeavor to be thought of in the sense of the person you become everyday.Do not believe in degrees only.Instead  go for any venture that has the potential to bring the best ouf yourself, to help you believe in the person you want to be.A degree often reminds you of your successful  academic background,but it  cannot lead you to life excellency.Be  a knowleageable person,develop self-study and train yourself continuously.Career may ebb and flow, but your mind will never.What is in is.What is out is out. You may find all of this is shit.What you have to know is that nothing on this planet can replace knowledge.Even love does not prevent marriage from breaking off ,but knowledge do.Develop networking purposefully and with the right people;those who are willing to let you show who you are and what you can.Those who are ready to let you get into action.Invest in your own education as MUNROE said.You don't know what you don't know.

     As you embark on this journey , Doctor PULOS ,a psychologist and neurosciences teacher has something to tell you.Here's what he discovered: 

                                      A human being at his birth has approximately 120 billions of gliar cells or neurons . At every action or decision taken in the conscious mind,2,000 neurons are engaged.All unused gliar cells end up by becoming dormants.

                 Education is out of limit.Never allow your mind to sleep,but take time to have a rest,to refresh it.

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