Importance Of Education In Computer Science

“Learning in the Key of Life” In “Learning in the Key of Life”, the author, Jon Spayde, makes arguments for an education centered on the humanities rather than what he describes education as “training for competitiveness”. (pg.47) He first poses the question “What does it mean to be educated?” This question, as Spayed explains, is about more than just education.

“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things” (Jean Piaget).

Growing up, I tried to diversify myself as much as possible. I read books over many different subjects, and I would constantly search for tutorials on the Internet to learn how to do various tasks. I built circuits, wrote computer programs, played musical instruments, learned French, and I used all of this knowledge to try to improve my understanding of the world and enrich my own life and the lives of others. However, my greatest fascination that I have always had is my fascination for technology and electronics.

My passion really started in 3rd grade with the study of rocks. Over the years I have added on to that passion. I also found out about the different types of science, such as Forensic Science. Forensic Science caught my attention because it is applied in real life. From the fingerprint analysis to the crime scene and evidence examination it all caught my

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

The desire to discover never really left. I’ve always gone out of my way to learn something new. So it was to my disappointment when my middle school advisor in Geneva Switzerland told me that science and math were subjects I shouldn’t pursue. My high grades in Latin and German signified that I was more of a “languages person” and should therefore forgo a pursuit in stem fields and focus instead on classical languages and humanities. I countered their advice by shadowing a biologist who worked on altering genetics in mice. I found myself learning about anything I could despite the Swiss education system and my middle school advisor’s advice. When I transferred to Manhattan Center for Science and Math in New York City, I was encouraged to explore everything and anything. My first opportunity was the Advanced Science Research Program. After mere weeks of moving to a new country, my biology teacher encouraged me to apply. I never regretted the decision once. At the end of my sophomore year, some of my teachers suggested I take a few Advanced Placement courses during my junior year. I craved learning

This quote stood out to me because I found it interesting how even big influences in education still see it as profit. If the most influential people are for furthering one’s intelligence instead of for profit, then who is supporting the students? I also find this very hypocritical of the major figures.

Yet even with these realizations that delve into the deeper meaning of education, modern education is still calling for simple measurable outcomes and continues to be geared towards specific employment ideas. This model of education is blatantly inadequate though. Many students today will end up holding jobs not yet invented in fields not yet discovered, so the teaching of answers to today’s questions is utterly useless. Albert Einstein once said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” and this statement reigns true throughout time. To continue academic success, the education system needs to impart a mastery of one’s own mind that allows students to not only answer current questions but also to pose questions that will shape the future world.

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery”

Education at its best is a process of teaching people to explore ideas about themselves and the world in which they live, to ask questions about the experience called “living” and to embrace ambiguity, to notice the unusual without fear and to look upon the ordinary with new eyes.

“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”

I have always been interested in science and the way things work. My interest in the medical field started by the time I was in kindergarten. However, I was interested in being a veterinarian at that point in my life. I loved and still do love animals, but changed to wanting to be a human nurse when I was in middle school. I would always go to appointments with my grandparents and parents when I was younger. Watching blood work being taken and the way a doctor would contort an MRI always sparked an interest in me.

Education is the very foundation in which we as individuals grow, and formulate the knowledge we gain through life into meaningful ways of adapting to the world.

“Truly there is an urgent need today of reforming the methods of instruction and education, and he who aims at such a renewal

As someone with extensive computer literacy, I understand the importance of being able to be efficient with the use of computers. Whether it is at school, or at the workplace, the struggles and inefficiency I see people have with computers results in a lot of wasted time and effort. The internet, and computers, play such a giant role in the day-to-day life of human beings that if computers were all wiped out tomorrow, humans would have a very difficult time in adapting to life afterwards. If you do not have the proper computer literacy in 2017, you are at a significant disadvantage to the rest of your peers. In this essay, I will highlight some of the causes of computer illiteracy, its effects on people’s