Mayari’s Blog

I remember an article by Peter Bieri, “Wie wäre es, gebildet zu sein?” (NZZ am Sonntag, 6.November 2005) my teacher gave us to read. I liked it so much that I kept it. Now, rereading it a few years later it still touches my heart.

How important self-education is to live in peace, to become tolerant and understanding! How important traveling is to understand other people’s lives, to respect them truely. Realising that your life is an accident in time and space, same as every other person’s life. No child can ever decide where on this earth, to whom and when to be born and to be raised. Only one thing is certain: we are all born thinking and feeling humans to the same planet.

I’m sorry if you can’t read German. But those who can I think it’s worth reading this essay!

Here are some thoughts: one who is curious is educating oneself | knowledge impedes you to become a victim | never stop asking questions | look at things from a distance | consider language | moral identity is contingent | serendipity | everything is relative | education/experience forms personal identity | education makes you an adult | enables you to decide for yourself | makes you addicted to documentary movies and books | there are uneducated academics | he learns the language of the heart | one knows to talk about oneself in an interesting because differentiated way | he/she creates or finds and evolves self-perceptions | an educated person knows of his unstable inner diversity | he/she creates his/her own mental identity | nobleness of heart | wishes and experiences are self-determined | one becomes more and more free | he/she accepts uncertainties | he/she develops moral sensitivity | tolerance | true respect | tension | no fears | empathy | social fantasy | education IS value per se | education mustn’t be prevented by anything! | knowledge about cultures | education is about everything: orientation, intelligence, self-awareness, fantasy, self-determination, moral sensitivity, art, luck… everything.

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