FLASH
Shkruar nga Irena Beqiraj
So, a day before congratulating teachers, we must reflect but above all acknowledge that we have all silently decided to face the smallest challenge.... to try to educate and not to educate.
At turning points in life, damn it, you won't find any signposts. No signposts that show you where to satisfy your ambition you might have to sell your freedom. No signposts that show you how far you can go with small steps. No signposts that show you when, out of pride, you have unwillingly closed your mind. No signposts that show you how to get back up after a bitter failure. No signposts that simply say that even mistakes are part of freedom, don't be sad!
Each person writes these indicator tables within themselves by learning the art of thinking.
Unfortunately, every day more and more the ability to think is confused with cognitive abilities or with knowledge. Therefore, this world is full of extremely knowledgeable or extremely rational people, but who often appear indifferent to the truth, deny their mistakes, are prejudiced, arrogant, or easily discouraged, cowardly, dismissive, narcissistic, exploitative and prone to all kinds of excesses. In other words, who are simply incapable of thinking.
The art of thinking is difficult because beyond cognitive skills it requires a fundamental moral dimension, including the mastery of curiosity as a central intellectual virtue.
And it is precisely the difference between cognitive skills and the art of thinking that shapes the difference between education and upbringing.
We become educated when we learn how to use facts, logic, quantitative tools, etc., when we perfect our analytical clarity. Meanwhile, we become educated when we learn how to think, a skill that we acquire only when we acquire intellectual and moral virtues.
In the age of Artificial Intelligence, we risk being "overwhelmed by the "wise" who no longer know how to think. But to make matters worse, today neither parents, nor primary and secondary school teachers, nor university professors, much less the media, are any longer willing to teach our young people courage, humility, love of truth, or any other virtue needed to think.
These teachers are now gone!
So, a day before congratulating teachers, we must reflect but above all acknowledge that we have all silently decided to face the smallest challenge.... to try to educate and not to educate.
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