Everything Shimmers

It became obvious through the breadth of research topics our class presented that education is a broad term. Education encompasses everything from the many way to learn, the settings for learning, and the things to learn. We can conclude that everyone learns something or another. Not every single person can have the same knowledge as another because of what they've learned will have differed from another, or where they learn, or, how they've learned. Home life, schooling, friends, interests all effect what knowledge one acquires. What and how the teachers of Tulane learned in "Floating Foundations" differs greatly from that of the main character of "The Lesson." Although Colleen and Jessica's research papers both deal with the same demographic, the deaf community, both papers maintain completely unique point of views and theses. Additionally, it became evident through the presentations - most people researched things they've dealt with before or have seen and wanted to build their knowledge off. Furthermore, I firmly believe we will forever learn more outside the classroom than inside it. That's exactly what education is, it's the drawing and reflection upon experiences to create one's own outlook or understanding about something. Something is always valuable to someone. So, if this is true, how can we as a society measure intelligence?