{"id":341,"date":"2019-07-27T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T21:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/?p=341"},"modified":"2019-07-27T17:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T21:49:43","slug":"what-is-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/07\/27\/what-is-education\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Un5msddQl6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In German, there are two words for education.\u00a0 The first is erziehung and refers to the education that a parent helps instill in a child&#8230;sit when you eat, say please and thank you, and generally know how to function in the world.\u00a0 We might call this type of education manners.\u00a0 The second is bildung, which refers to the formal education that a person receives in school.\u00a0 This type of education also takes experiences into account in addition to the traditional classroom setting.<\/p>\n<p>In English, we only have one word for education.\u00a0 While teachers in the US and in Germany deal with many challenges in our attempt to educate in the classroom setting, perhaps it is fair to say that American teachers might need to deal more with erziehung while trying to impart bildung- while German teachers may have less erziehung to impart since there appears to be a more general consensus on what erziehung means in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of semantics, I think that all nationalities can agree that without education, we cease to have a functioning society.\u00a0 But, what constitutes a good education?\u00a0 We need all of it.\u00a0 We need manners, we need to learn to say please and thank you.\u00a0 We must be humble and kind.\u00a0 We need to think of those to the left and to the right of us.\u00a0 We need to listen and value others&#8217; opinions.<\/p>\n<p>We also need formal learning situations in which we are given information by those that have more knowledge than we might.\u00a0 We need time to collaborate with colleagues and those with differing opinions.<\/p>\n<p>We also need moments of reflection.\u00a0 We need time to travel, to experience other cultures and people.\u00a0 We need time to explore and to get lost in a new place; to try new food and drink, to experience all of the many nuances that go into making a culture what it is.\u00a0 I might argue that this type of education has the potential to be the most rewarding &#8211; but only if it is grounded in formal educational experiences.<\/p>\n<p>We have had the privilege this week of an exceptional educational experience that combines all elements of education &#8211; and most importantly, one in which we have been challenged to see and make connections for ourselves individually.<\/p>\n<p>What does education mean to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In German, there are two words for education.\u00a0 The first is erziehung and refers to the education that a parent helps instill in a child&#8230;sit when you eat, say please and thank you, and generally know how to function in the world.\u00a0 We might call this type of education manners.\u00a0 The second is bildung, which<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore-p\"><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/07\/27\/what-is-education\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102109,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlies-angels","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}