Thoughts on Education

In recent days,  I had the opportunity to once again be a part of a cool classroom learning experience at Education Week at Brigham Young University in Utah.   I saw how there are opportunities of learning everywhere within the campus that fit the interests of everybody and the joy that we feel from each of the Education Week as part of the learning process shows that life is really about the journey, not just the destination.   When we have a certain interest in learning, it motivates us to study further until we have a deeper problem within ourselves that we need to solve with the use of knowledge.   As I start school again this coming Tuesday, I wanted to share some thoughts on how education can impact us for the better.   A lot of times, many of us don't quite understand the value of going to school because we tend to feel stressed about the temporal demands that life places upon us.   When we desire to learn something, even a subject we hate very much, we find in ourselves a new talent and a new passion.   Nelson Mandela once said that education is the most powerful weapon we can have for changing the world.   Education also removes the barriers of ignorance and prejudice that we tend to keep in ourselves.  When we shut ourselves off to learning, we're shutting off the opportunity to grow and become better people and we don't develop talents that can bless ourselves and others around us.  So take any opportunity to educate yourself, you'll find that you have more potential than you can imagine.