Feb 27 On the diversity of education

Discuss Education with Andie Marcle

Thanks for listening! Please feel free to leave your comments and/or opinions to [e-mail] Synopsis of Today's Topic: In ecosystem, diversity depends on variation of life and places species occupy. Education needs diversity, but so many people treat diversity by our appearances, identities and ethnic groups, which are learned from statistic data. Somehow, the statistic data is incapable of proving anything, and it can only bring more and more serious prejudice, if we can’t see the facts behind. Another aspect we need to think about is information spread. We used to think information needs carriers to pass on data, and the carriers are technology and data is the data. However, if the carriers are human and data is their stories, information can be spread to every corners of the world, while, in the former way, information can only reach where technology exists. It is said that whoever saves one saves the world entire. For example, if we save an alcoholic, he will be the man who knows the alcoholics best, for he knows the feeling that drinking is everything and knows how to get rid of it. He used to be there. So is education, it is not to give but to care about something we cannot see, just like what Mother Teresa did is not so much a glory as a warning that there are so many things we never cared and saw before. When education can be passed on to one person to another person, it is not a commodity or a company for profits. Sometimes, it is enough if we can bring up a good mother.