The Ability To Responsibly Pass On Culture Shows the Progress of Education by Emily
Emily's entry into Varsity Tutor's July 2022 scholarship contest
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The Ability To Responsibly Pass On Culture Shows the Progress of Education by Emily - July 2022 Scholarship Essay
In the next ten years, I hope to see education reflect changes made to demonstrate a greater commitment to passing on ideas that transcend individual lifetimes and leave others with more than what is initially invested into students and young adults.
The development of the human personality as it adapts to technological advancement, is always done amidst its cultural backdrop. If history and science are used to translate the past to the present, I believe the humanities - an an exercise of this awareness of one's culture - will teach a sense of place in that transposition of time, allowing individuals to feel that their education has a role in culture. The scientific cycling of real information to the forefront of scientific interpretation and accessibility would help all students to know that they give back as much as they learn, and that this is a process that always loops to inform itself. I would like to see education teach students how to recognize that process in action, over the years of self-development in educational settings.
For education's purposes, this process would be more mindful of equalizing mind and body, so that the mind can sense distance or proximity to realistic measures for change. Part of spatial reasoning's strength lies in social adaptation as much as networking, so for this process to encompass a a true mechanism for change, both adaptation and socializing would occur in nature as much as with technology, with physical movement as much as book-learning. If whole human personalities are their bodies as much as their minds, the personality recognized as egalitarian would share with others psychosocial development via nature, as a model for equality.
Higher education reflecting this development in the elementary to high school years would allow for much greater ability to make decisions leading to action, with action advancing education itself, as something truly inclusive to all: from medicine to machine, and potential to empowerment to mobilize socially. Elementary education engaging the the spatial-visual size of increasingly higher education concepts would help students to overcome intimidation in learning, while planning steps for advancing what they're working with, and after what they sense is accessible in scope.
At the level of higher education, students then know better when to be "hands on" versus "hands off" where the passage of skill is maintained through the cultural skill itself of passing on time and progress. This teaches respect and boundaries, as well as order and unity, so that diversity and creativity are successfully channeled into real life experience. This then translates into skill categorized by fields equalizing tech development with the humanities, and by extension, the humane treatment of all.