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What does good education mean?

thats the point, creativity is boundless not subject to labels like subjectivity. Good education is attaining value education. Meaning of education is not learning the things by heart, but you should focus on gaining conceptual knowledge Good education increases creativity by making the student ask him/herself. When you think, you are creating, so a good education should be centered in the cuestion. For a proper understanding, the student needs to be interested, this only happens if there´s a cuestion to answer, to search, and many more to ask.Reading various biographies and autobiographies by successful persons helps provide insights into what a good education is. it's make good thought. A good education is a system that make student better.A good education is when it could increase a child's creativity help them enjoy studying and help them through education in their future. Nort only this a good education helps them socialize or communicate with others. It is generally held that education is a process that emphasizes imitation, not creative thought. Imitation is required because education serves a societal purpose; it is normative in nature. A quality education should provide the intellectual training necessary for meaningful creative thought, but it cannot cultivate creativity itself. That is too subjective. Education should be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It should promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and should further the activities for the maintenance of peace. [1] The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. [2][3]developing good knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, maturity.

However, this definition does not include few other important concepts, namely: health, happiness, creativity...

Maybe health can be achieved through knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, and maturity. Happiness as well. Creativity however seems to require something more.

Why definition of education does not include 'creativity'? [4][5] To know what a good education is, we must first know what education means. Dictionary gives following definition:

- education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

It seems easy now to understand what a good education means: What does good education mean?





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References:

1. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a26
2. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget
3. http://www.piaget.org/links.html
4. http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
5. http://liveweb.archive.org/http://worldroom.tamu.edu/workshops/commofrespect07/moraldilemmas/the%20balance%20theory%20of%20wisdom%20sternberg.pdf


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