when knowledge-informed purpose displaces resonance-seeking experience

knowledge-informed purpose replacing resonance-seeking experience

I always intuited that ‘something was wrong’ with my uneducated grandparents and moderately educated parents to wish that their grandchildren would receive what they had missed out on; i.e. a ‘superior education’.

Education too often seemed to be a bypassing of life experience; the rich sort of life experience that they had had, for which education could never be a substitute.  That is, it was ‘education’ of ‘another kind’ as John Abbott indicates in the title of his book ‘Over-schooled and Under-educated’.

One thing is for sure, education imparts ‘knowledge’ or ‘know-how’ to its clients which changes their behaviour.

How does ‘education’ change one’s behaviour? (more…)