Tonight, I finished an application for a scholarship. I started to reflect on this privilege of having an education: how the chance does not come to everyone, and how it actually is fortunate that I have a chance to be educated. Education is priceless in the sense that it allows people to be in company with life-changing ideas. Yet, with that education comes the responsibility to always be ready to include those who are not part of that system, or to change the system itself to open up to differences in how people learn and thrive.
Education is constructed out of discourses. It's not a fixed entity but is composed of activities that define what is "right" to teach. The politics of education is also subject to changes, but what remains the same is the need to continually adapt to different lives and needs. If people get too caught up in the specific books that make them educated, they lose sight of how education itself means something different to different people. One "mark" of education may not actually apply to others. I believe that for this reason, education needs to problematize its own definitions and be open to continuous growth and change.
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