is knowledge acquired in the school of life or in the school within four walls?

Question

when i say school within four walls..i'm referring to a classroom

Answer 1

Classroom learning lays the foundation.... the building is erected through the tough learning imparted by real life.

Answer 2

Both. You acquire a lot of knowledge in school, but much more in life: from parents, peers and life experience. We never stop learning from the time we're born until the time that we die. Even when we don't realize it, we are taking in sensory data constantly & analyzing it. Everything we see, hear, read. Everything we feel. It all becomes a source of knowledge that we draw upon. Life is filled with lessons. An education is a wonderful thing to have. It can certainly provide structure for the rest of your life & may help you to define a career path but it is definitely not the only or the most important means of learning.

Answer 3

Life..... period!!!!

Benjamin Frankilin said that "education is what occurs after you finish school"

Listen to michael douglas's character in Wall Street, Gordon Gecko, "Most of these high paid
MBAs from Harvard never make it.
You need a system, discipline, good
people, no deal junkies, no
toreadores, the deal flow burns
most people out by 35.
Give me PSHs -- poor, smart and
hungry. And no feelings. You don't
win 'em all, you don't love 'em
all, you keep on fighting, and if
you need a friend, get a dog, it's
trench warfare out there sport..."

Read Robert Kiyosaki's First book "If you want to be rich and happy, dont go to school" school meaning college

Education is important, but its way more important to be street smart.

There was a guy who I was in the navy with, probably the smartest guy I ever met, who dropped out of high school when he was 16 to take care of his family cause he had no father. He now owns 14 real estate rental properties (Hes 26 by the way)
HE HAS A 9TH GRADE EDUCATION AND A GED.

Bill Gates didnt graduate college

Thomas Edison never went

Michael Dell didnt finish college

Henry ford was considered an idiot by his peers

There is NO, let me repeat, There is absolutely no link between success and formal education!!! And I have a nuclear engineering degree so Im not saying this from a biased point of view.

Do I want my son to go to college? Yes if its to play sports, or chase girls, or become a more rounded person (well read...etc.) but not to prepare him for life. Thats my job and his job thru the process of: Try, fail, readjust....Try, fail, readjust.

The biggest problem with school is that it teaches you that making a mistake is bad!! mistakes are great. You only learn really important lifes lessons by making mistakes.

Answer 4

our failing educational system (USA) is so because it fails to engrain a sense of morals within its students.

classroom education is merely a means to an end of developing marketable skills that will one day either help you or prevent you from getting a decent career.

There is no wisdom or insight within the classroom.
And how could you have one, with a separation of church and state?

Kids go to school to learn the basics of communication, and analytical thinking and social interaction - but the true fabric of education and wisdom is best left up to the home - where it should be

P.S.
Perhaps thats where we are failing.
Most people do not realize this fact, and feel sending their child is the best way to have them learn, and thats that.
learn what though?

Without explaining to our chldren what school actually prepares them for, and leaving the dangers of such an educational system out there to prey upon our children, then parents are not actually parenting their kids properly.

Again, taken into proper context, the school system is what it is.
And parents should be parenting their kids with the more important things in life.
school SHOULD merely prepare you for one facet of life.

Its a shame, and the real problem is, everyone seems to be sharing the mentality, that kids will elarn everything at school.
relationships, sex, violence, drugs.

yeah, they will -- the hard way
if you dont prepare them properly.

Answer 5

I would say both. They compliment each other.

In the classroom, you are not only learning facts, you are learning how to learn. You are developing critical thinking skills that will allow you to more readily gain knowledge and insight from everyday "real world" situations, and apply that knowledge.

Real world knowledge and experience can help you see how ideas and concepts learned in the classroom are applied.

Answer 6

formal education stifles creativity and eliminates free thinking. All it seems like we do is go to school to memorize facts that we will later forget when we pursue our real goals. I think that the only stage of formal education where you truely learn is elementary school where you learn to read, write, and do basic math. I know i'll probably start learning once I go to college next year but it feels to me like grade 6-12 have just been a waste of time.

Answer 7

school is a great head start, but the bulk of your knowledge will be acquired in life.

Answer 8

"Knowledge" is acquired in the classroom; "wisdom" is acquired in the school of life.