Educate comes from Latin, Educare

What the machine cannot do, for example, is to develop critical sense, the capacity to discern, and irony

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Pau Gener Galín

The term Educate comes from Latin, Educare, which literally means Raise or Feed. It can be inferred a derived meaning that would be something like to Train or to Instruct. Etymology, once again, is already telling us and giving us the key to this matter. ‘The key to turn the workshop’, as it used to be said by artisans, blacksmiths, etc.

It should be emphasized or at least underlined that we live in a 21st century that is advancing at a forced pace. Since technology advances so quickly, current generations are in fact provided with new developments every six months. I don’t rule out this might be good, but I do think that since not evertthing goes, we shoul pay attention on it.

We are witnessing some facts related to the technology that children have access to, which could be argued to mean a setback in basic knowledge. You no longer have to know how to write well, the machine does it. I no longer need to know my way around, the machine does it. I no longer need to memorize anything else, the machine does it instead.

What the machine cannot do, for example, is to develop critical sense, the capacity to discern, and irony.

I would like to assume that everyone recognizes these values as essential to mankind. And surely, this has to be done through training, education in its etymological sense.

In other words, we must want the new generations to learn to think. And do not let the machine in charge of everything. In what’s concerning to reading and writing that sounds obvious.

And we must keep in mind that reading and writing are fundamental tools to what could be said to make us human. Not only in terms of self-knowledge, but also the ability to understand and empathize with others.

We are no longer monkeys coming down from the tree. We found out how to make fire. We learned to read and write.

We learned to respect an idea of civilization, even though we still have shortcomings in this that shoud be improved.

And everything starts from education, in its etymological sense. To feed the new generations with positive stimuli. To give them the chance to improve humanity, to improve themselves, for the planet and for their own kind.

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