The biggest reason for the importance of education is that only through the attainment of education, man is enabled to receive information from the external world; to acquaint himself with past history and receive all necessary information regarding the present. Without education, man is as though in a closed room and with education he finds himself in a room with all its windows open towards outside world. One gets free from rigidity, extremism and becomes open to debate on all topics and issues worldwide.

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For many years I have wondered about education and what it means to be educated.
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary gives several definitions for the word educate, including “to train by formal instruction and supervised practice especially in a skill, trade, or profession” and “to develop mentally, morally, or aesthetically especially by instruction.”Do we suddenly arrive at a point in our lives when we are educated? Education is a lifelong process, and I don’t believe we go to school expecting to be really and fully educated. Whether one is in school or not, whether one goes to school or not, whether you have a degree or not, does not in itself mean that one “is educated.” An education is not simply something you can purchase for a price like a product, and then to be expected to “be educated.”
Suppose one goes to school to study one thing and like a lot of people, graduates college and must seek employment. What does it mean when you go to school for one thing, and get a job doing something totally different from what you studied in school. It does not invalidate the educational experience, but one begins to wonder what is the best way that one can spend the money to maximize a return on investment.
The ability to think and to reason, or to reflect upon life and our surroundings should be a benchmark on which to place the title of being educated.
Of the seven or eight different types of intelligences, from musical, to mathematical/logical to linguistic, to visual/spatial, body-kinesthetic, to intrapersonal and interpersonal communication, there has not been enough attention placed for the varying degrees of learners. Schools of the past cater mostly to the auditory style, where the teacher says X and expects the student to learn by hearing the information, most likely through repetition and testing, and reteaching. This leaves out a vast percentage of those who learn visually, by seeing information in front of them or at their fingertips, for example, with laptops, computer screens or through games.

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PVLD has worked hard to develop a community awareness of the role public libraries play as a partner in education, and to develop active partnerships with local schools. As the current economic crisis unfolds and our public schools are forced to lay off school library staff, technology aides, and teachers our PVLD staff have been wrestling with how best to support students, parents and teachers within the constraints of our own limited resources. Through the current strategic planning process we've also been wrestling with developing a vision for our future in the face of technological and societal changes.
One of the things that seems certain is that we are almost certainly, as David Lee King put it in a recent blog post, at "The Beginning of a New Normal". David's post was primarily about the restructuring of our economy with the potential for entire industries to disappear (print media? American automotive manufacturing?), an acceleration of the shift from physical to digital channels of distribution of content, and the growing importance of the "long tail"...and the implications for libraries.


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