The Five Definitions of Education!

Education, definition one.
The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

‘Education is priceless,’ ‘education is key’
Yet your education makes the lock within me
The ongoing struggle to gain focus and interest
Learning is only valuable when it brings out our best.

And what is education? Is it knowledge withheld?
Is it memorizing dates and knowing how sailor is spelled?
Education teaches us to absorb what we’re told
And never to question what it is they withhold.

In history the dates are more important than the reasons
And learning how to prevent the ongoing treasons
In math we learn formulas we’ll never use in our lives
Instead of learning the equations to answer our drives.

In English we focus on making the format more complex
Instead of how to engage the reader with vocab that infects
Us with the desire to read even more
It’s such a shame when a good story becomes a bore.

Education, I think, should have choice, chances,
Different ways for advances,
And yet due to circumstances
And supposed ‘enhances’
Choice and future no longer balances.

You see thinking, should be what we learn to do,
Not memorizing phrases for tests we need to get through,
What we learn in our classes is virtually useless,
Because we don’t retain information that we find fruitless.

We should be learning to think and not to work,
We should learn to help and not to hurt,
We should learn that our lives are not something we can wait for
That our dreams are something we need to chase for.

But what if I don’t have a dream? Does that make me worthless?
Does not knowing my future mean that I’m helpless?
Does being a dreamer mean I can’t make a decision?
Does it mean I can’t make what I envision?

It’s as if you’re telling me that I am not alive right now,
That my life has yet to begin and so how
Am I supposed to believe that it will be worth anything
If what I’m feeling now accounts for nothing?

The point of childhood is to prepare for your future, to prepare for your life.
You can be alive once you reach high school,
You’re alive when you reach college,
You’re alive when you have a steady job,
You’re alive when you have a family,
You’re alive when you have money,
You’re alive when you retire, NO!
I’ve been alive, since the day I was born.
Those days of discoveries.
Learning what foods I liked,
Making my first friends,
Getting coated in sun lotion,
Health checkups,
Recess,
Gym injuries,
Nurses office,
Crashing on my bike as I learn to ride it.
I was alive, during all of these moments.
That was my life, this is my life, and this will be MY life.
I decide when my life begins.

Education, Definition two.
the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.

Jobs
Our lives are now governed societies rules
We don’t learn to think in our modern schools
It’s like we’re learning to be tools
As we take on the whip of our ‘teacher’s’ ridicules
On our foreheads we are writing ourselves off as ‘fools.’

Money is key to any success,
It’s the only way we know how to assess
Anything’s worth, so we continue to taper
Ourselves until everything is measured by a piece of paper.

Why? Why must I find a place to put in menial labor,
When my dream is simply to have good will with my neighbor,
To enjoy every moment as if it were my last,
To leave future for future and past for past.

When the world says no I want to say yes,
When they tell me I’m worthless I want to say I’m the best,
When they tell me I need to be something I’m not,
I want to tell them, you just can’t handle something this hot.

I don’t take orders well, I’m stubborn as a goat,
So why must I take orders from some self serving bloat,
Why should I deal with what the world tells me to do?
Should I just remain silent and stare at my shoes?

They tell me that I have to be this I have to be that,
Be skinnier,
Be smarter,
Think less,
Buy more,
Memorize,
Stereotype,
Be an object,
Listen to your superiors,
Don’t question.
Well you know what? Fuck you.

Education, definition three.
a degree, level, or kind of schooling

Schooling…
What use is a school that only misuses
It’s educational resources however it chooses
We must learn their way if we want to achieve
Anything and have money that we can receive.

If we learn in different ways and play different ballads
Then tell me why we’re all taught by the same methods,
We’re all different people with our own different drives
We have different ways to make our potentials rise.

But since our choice cannot be voiced
And our words cannot be heard
Because our actions are ‘distractions’
And our knowledge won’t be acknowledged
We cannot choose what we have to lose.

School is all about memorizing and reciting,
citing and speaking,
listening and writing,
looking and hearing,
repeating and ‘growing’
but not a single thought is ever heard.

Education, definition four.
the science or art of teaching; pedagogics.

Teachers, I ask, happiness, their happiness,
Is that factored into your math equation,
Is that word in your vocabulary lesson,
After your science presentation
And your history test is done
Tell me, are they learning one. thing?

Everyone needs a teacher to learn
But not every teacher is able to discern
The best teaching methods for that student
Sometimes giving up is the decision that’s most prudent.

They teach us to fight for what we believe
To never give up what we want to achieve
And yet when we speak out against the norm
It rises up chaos like fire storm.

So why…
Why am I forced to keep my identity secret
Why is it I’m forced to regret,
And rethink every decision I’ve made
As if I’m an idiot you’re trying to save…

Teaching is a wonderful thing and I can’t learn on my own,
but there is one teacher that we always need to know.
Experience.
Mistakes,
Injury,
Hurt,
Shame,
Regret,
Forgetting,
Remembering,
Moving,
Thinking,
Doing,
Living.
These are necessary in any life.

Education, definition five.
The variation, of learning abilities.

They say going to school and getting a degree
Is one of lifes best opportunities
But it’s not an opportunity anymore
And what we really need is a cure.

Now this one goes to my Actors, Musicians, Poets,
You’re all beautiful and you know it,
Yet you can’t show it or you’ll blow it,
Because they think it’s not worth it if they don’t own it.

Learn through fun, and learn through interest
Because that’s the only way you can ever trust
That we actually retain what we want to know
Otherwise our abilities fall down like snow.

The needs of the past clash with the needs of today
And the needs of the future make our present fray
At the very seams of what we know is necessary
For us to achieve what we live for, to be happy.

Because when opportunity becomes necessity
And necessity becomes frivolity
And when frivolity demotes quality
Tell me, why is ability seen as absurdity?

There are so many things we can learn, so many ways we can learn,
So let us find for ourselves, what exactly is our highest potential.
Working,
Trying,
Achieving,
Failing,
Jumping,
Running,
Chasing,
Dreaming,
Playing,
Preforming,
Writing.
We all have our own abilities.