Education is Everywhere

Education encompasses every aspect in life. Education can't just be defined by the classroom but rather portrays experiences, knowledge, higher education, and much more. Throughout this semester this idea has been shown in our research projects. In my opinion, education can be defined as experiences in any part of like that teach one valuable lessons to carry them through life. Education can range from in the classroom, like Joyce's presentation, to other aspects of education entirely like Brittany's presentation on Autism.

In our first short assignment, I wrote about education being within the human brain. We are the ones who define our own education and therefore are responsible for what we learn and know. The brain serves as the center point of education within every person because it is what allows us to ultimately function. Our brain allows us to process and understand new experiences which in turn lead to education.

In our class readings, education has taken on a more literal sense like higher education but that doesn't mean our readings didn't encompass the theme of education being in every aspect of life. Some readings that apply to my definition is Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective and Floating Foundations. In Floating Foundations, the writing directors used Hurricane Katrina as a way to focus on education and to learn something from the disaster that struck. Education also has to be flexible and always changing to new times. Floating Foundations showed the students using information from outside the classroom to learn. In Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective, Leslie Silko describes education within her culture. Education is not just textbooks, exams, and lectures, but it includes cultures and language.

My research question would be how does education outside of the classroom affect children's abilities within the classroom setting? This is an important question because at a young age children are learning tremendous amounts of information inside and outside the classroom. It would be interesting to know how students are affected by both types of education.