If there is one million answer to any question..What is the use of formal education?

Answer 1

So that we will have the same understanding even on complex problems.

Answer 2

Your question includes a logical fallacy as there are not a million answers to any questions. There are answers to factual questions - what is the distance from London to New York, what is the population of Australia, 2+2=?, to which there can be but only one answer. (ignoring the fact that clever mathematicians come up with different answer than 4 to my last example). Then there are questions about which people have an opinion and to which there may be a range of answers - e.g. does global warming prevent a threat to humanity, what were the cause of World War 1. Finally there are the questions which have no answer - e.g. what is the purpose of life, does God exist. The purpose of formal education is to give you a certain factual knowledge to enable you to answer questions of the first sort (or to know where to look for the answers), to know how to research and make a reasoned judgment on questions of the second sort, and to be able to debate without rancour questions of the third sort. In other words. to make you a fully rounded human being.

Answer 3

Perhaps your understanding of "formal education" as teaching you a set of answer is misled. The correct purpose of formal education is to cultivate and refine thinking, to empower you to solve problems (math, economic, philosophical, what ever else) and serve that specific need that we have in this society. Formal education grants you a "ticket" into the next level of formal education, be it grad school or some other professional school.

Answers are constantly changing, as you can see your grandpa and grandma don't exactly have the right answer, a bit dysynchronous with the times. Education is a tool we use to refine ourselves to be able to continue to learn always. Never stops, ideally. Because problems never stop forming.

Answer 4

Formal education is just a system to impart calibrated learning. What is important is the learning. We need a lot of learning, whether through education or experience or meditation, especially to handle those questions which have multiple answers or no real answer at all. Unless the mind is trained, one will simply go mad, because such questions are countless and only learned people can deal with them keeping a straight face and undisturbed mind. Learning is all about uncertainties.

Answer 5

as a former teacher, i think that formal ed is a crock of $&(#. as long as students are taught to question and communicate, i don't think that the forum of formality really matters.

Formal education in the USA has grounds in social control. The government wanted to institutionalize education, so that immigrant children would be better assimiliated into our culture.

Education isn't schooling. Remember, one can go to school and not learn a damn thing.

Answer 6

It is called "Opinion".... A million people can offer a million unreliable answers..... if we rely on everybody's opinion to learn a matter of opinion, there would be no definitive truth..... But, if we concur to a degree that we have learned from one another and teach the method by which it is derived, we can say we have an answer...... or an educated guess.....

The point would indicate a means of education.....

your sister,
Ginger

Answer 7

Every way of doing something has a specific workable technology. The best technology is worth learning. For example, to become a painter takes a bit more than a paintbrush, paint and paper. Same concepts goes with dancing, singing, climbing, speaking, writing, programming, etc. There are millions of ways of doing something wrong, but usually many less correct ways of doing it exactly right.

Answer 8

Formal education nowadays still, I think, is of vital importance since we need our younger generations to study, to learn, to be educated, etc. in their schools/colleges/universities in appropriate educational environments among their peers under the professional advice and techniques from their teachers/lecturers/professors. Thus, one of the goals of education is not just for training them to answer questions, that's only part of the heart of the matter. In other words, we need them to learn to reach their full, possible intelligent potential as well as to nurture their human characterstics as good citizens and high quality workforce to serve the community and mankind.

Answer 9

But only one is correct and that is the reason for education. You might like to start with English grammar. Good luck.

Answer 10

To recognise the suitable one, and to confirm it from own experience !