Throughout our lives, we have all learned that education consists of the buildings we go to. Because this is how education was reflected to us. Well, if what we call education consisted of buildings such as primary school, secondary school, and high school, would you really have the knowledge you have now?
By definition, education is the knowledge, skills and understandings acquired to take part in social life. In other words, contrary to what most of us think, education; It comes to us as our ability to live rather than the lessons we take at school such as biology, physics, literature, and mathematics. For example, education is more related to the communication we have with our teachers and friends at school, and our ability to overcome problems than the lessons we take in school. Based on this idea, it is very simple to understand that the concept we call education is not specific to a building consisting of only four walls and a roof. A sign you come across while walking on the street, a different stone you find on the beach, a new word you hear while chatting with a friend… In fact, they are examples of many different places and times in which we unknowingly learn.
“Education has no end. Reading a book is not about passing an exam and finishing it with an education. All of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a learning process.” said Jiddu Krishnamurti. In fact, how well he explained this article’s event. A person who wants to learn and strives for it does not need to go to school or learn to write. In fact, although it is not very relevant to this subject, “does the reader learn more or the traveler learns more?” we can relate these questions to our topic. Rather than reading about the effect of a plant species on the human body in a school textbook, it will be much more effective to go to the forest and find that plant and research it on any living thing or in a laboratory setting. In other words, learning by living is more effective, and at the same time, questioning the accuracy of what we learned at school by transferring and experiencing it to daily life is an important part of education.
As a result, education is always a part of one’s life. Even if you are 70 years old, you can learn a new life lesson from something you encounter while looking out the window instead of a school within four walls. Even if one day you decide to stop learning, life can teach you how wrong that decision was, when you least expect it, and where you least expect it. Because school is everwhere.