"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?" - Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac, March)
Yes and no.
To me there are two types of education: one you get in school, and one you get outside watching events happen. When you see geese flying south is a sign of fall. I wonder if we used to rely on this type of situation so we would know when to get ready for winter. Will we have to relearn the way things work in the world? When I think of it, this way the education of natural events is definitely worth something. The education system of technology is taking away from the awareness of nature; we pay more attention to technology. If we dropped all our technology, I don't think most of use would live. I noticed this year when fall came, it didn't creep in slowly, instead one day I just realized “Oh! That tree has changed colors.” Where as animals all around me had already been preparing for this. We have now become so dependent on our urban lives that we almost don't even need to focus on nature anymore. In fact for most of our lives we ignore nature and do with it what we please.
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