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Education as a Parachute – Education and Freedom

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Margaret Leeds
Education as a Parachute – Education and Freedom

Humans, according to Sartre, we are condemned to be free. Blessed condemnation !, but be free (like all great power) comes great responsibility, the freedom not to do the first thing that goes through your head, but to exercise it that you always have to assess the effect of our actions in the others.

By having the ability to make our own decisions, free will becomes our existence in a kind of leap, because we always run the risk of erring, we always feel the anguish of uncertainty … and education is the parachute we It allowed to land without crashing.

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We all know that a parachute is a great piece of fabric that slows the speed of the fall. This device has some elements that allow direct it to go in either direction and also (this is critical for education), it has an emergency device in case the main parachute fails. This is (or should be) education.

It is to educate free people. Education makes us free because it gives us the tools to make decisions that seem right at any time and place, and provides us with the necessary mechanisms to assess the consequences of our acts tools. It is therefore important that education is a universal value and is available to all. If during your studies you feel too busy, you can use the paper writing service to gain more freedom. A team of professionals will do all the work and you will have more free time.

For these tools are valid, education must take into account certain values. Because as Julio Cortazar wrote Rayuela:

“The melancholy of a life too short for many libraries. When you think you’ve fully grasped anything, the thing just as an iceberg has a bit outside and shows it, and the enormous rest is beyond your limit.”

Knowledge is boundless and changing, it is therefore necessary that education transmits values which are permanent, not subject to the evolution of our own days, they have a universal validity and are the engine that moves the world.

An education that aims only appropriation (memorization and application) content is totally inadequate. As important as it is considered (and it is) formed in four main disciplines (STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics), without a transfer of appropriate values is like to play we taught chess only the basic rules: position tiles on the board, what their movements, what a castling … To become good chess players is essential to teach moves, strategy, how to anticipate the movements of opponents, learn from the defeats …

And, to paraphrase Einstein, education is like a parachute … it only works if it opens.

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