The big picture

The big picture.

The apperceptive consciousness is a tether between beings and time. Time plays a dramatic role in that the source of a truth about existence is in the past. Our origins right now are explained as being a time and place in the past. From founding of one's nation to the making of one's shoes, all of these originate from a past.

The component missing from education is the big picture. We've traded in a narrative understanding of the objects of knowledge for a technical vocabulary that is standardized into units to ease categorization, comparison, and ultimately grading. From this, the administrator gains control, measures outcomes, tracks progress, generates statistics. As a result of this, students lose interest in the minutiae of learning vocabulary words, key terms, dates, and formulas. As a result of this, they have no big picture. And with no big picture the chance for an education in art, history, language, mathematics, science, and knowledge itself to furnish meaning for their life and their pursuits is lost. Education becomes meaningless to the student. Education becomes meaningless to the teacher. Then education simply becomes a tool for indoctrination and job training, and no longer does it furnish an engaged and informed citizenry with meaningful tools for engaging in a democracy.