The importance of a well rounded education (#1104)

Everyone needs to be educated and not just in the big three; reading, writing and arithmetic. Those first three are important but they are just the beginning. More time needs to be spent on teaching us how to think and not what to think. Critical thinking about ourselves and our environment is just as crucial as the big three and even more so for how we live the rest of our lives. Too many times I have come across those who have little understanding of their unmovable positions on policies. It is frustrating, despite the best evidence that logic has to offer, misconception continues to be the foundation for so many. It is as if some can only see a portion of the argument being held and anything else is just not viable. I often move away from those conversations since they are so subjectively parlayed with no hope for an objective analysis. It is like many things in life that have little to no hope of changing, it is better to move on in order to keep my own sanity and accept that I have done what I could at that time. Life is to be lived with an eye toward happiness and not to be spent in frustration where uneven, thoughtful principled combat is ever continuing. This is our dilemma as a society, we have not yet figured out how to educate all of our citizens to the highest levels of their ability. It is incumbent upon our society to quit placing obstacles to education in the paths of our up-coming generations. We have a duty to our species to leave them the offerings of a better world and to have that future they will need to be better educated than we were. Not only better educated but all of our children must have the opportunities for education that only some or most of us now have. We have much work to do!