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The biggest problem is this: We spend our lives accumulating valuable knowledge and relationships. Then we allow our elders to just die and let that knowledge
by rayhano 15y ago
The biggest problem is this:
We spend our lives accumulating valuable knowledge and relationships.
Then we allow our elders to just die and let that knowledge and their relationships die with them.
Why are youngsters forced into teaching jobs, when they have no life experience to novate to kids?
Find a mechanism for achieving a solid transfer of knowledge from the elderly to the young (the caveat being the young need to be taught to reason for themselves and filter out the less useful bits)
For the record: sending kids to school does not equal them being educated or learned.
- code_pockets 15y agoGreat point. Though you may have not thought of something: wisdom (which is what you seem to be referring to) works something like this: wisdom = knowledge(experience(actions(decisions * time) * time) * time) * time //why do I always end up writing lisp? We spend our whole lives developing our wisdom, but we also spend our whole lives learning how to acquire it, and how to understand it. How do we transfer something that strictly depends on time and discipline (when time is undefined for all, and discipline is lacking)?
- rayhano 15y agoIs not some of the best learning those things we don't appreciate at first but then we encounter an example and that pearl of wisdom someone imparted on us years ago flashes up and all in the world makes sense? :) I love the lisp... can I post it on twitter? What's your twitter handle?
- code_pockets 15y agoThank you for the nice comment. I do not use twitter, but you can feel free to tweet it. Just send the profits of the tweet to the FSF. =)