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How to Become Self Educated

Can you educate yourself? Of course you can. It requires a willingness to learn, the self discipline to stay focused and a level of interest that exceeds the standard job mill education.

Part1

EditShowing Curiosity

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   Be curious. A curious mind seeks to be educated. By asking questions, you can find out a lot of things that many people don't know and won't ever know.
   

   • There is no limit to how many questions you can ask, or should ask.
   • Be aware that some people are annoyed by questions. In fact, the less a person knows, and the less patient a person, the more a question will bug that person. That in itself tells you a great deal.
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   Read, watch and see things that you don't know anything about. Try to expand your mind by learning beyond your comfort zone and seeing how other people think, perceive and understand things.
   

   • If you only ever see rom-coms, go and see a documentary or an action film instead.
   • If you only ever read comics, try a novel instead.
   • If you only ever see car rallies, go and see a museum exhibition instead.
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   Challenge yourself. Curiosity is about pushing yourself beyond what you're used to. There will be times when you feel really uncomfortable, out of your depth and perhaps even upset when trying to learn new things. This can happen especially where you feel dumb, unlearned or when your beliefs and values are challenged. These are the very times when you should keep pushing yourself to learn and to become wiser about whatever it is you've been avoiding.

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EditImproving the Basics

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   Read English literature and improve your grammar as much as possible. Read English from different parts of the world, don't assume that authors from your own country are the only ones worth reading. By extending your reading to elsewhere in the world, you'll discover that even with one language, the thinking is diverse and the ways of seeing the world are wonderfully varied.
   

   • When you feel more competent in this area, push into other languages. Realize that learning a language is about immersing yourself in another culture too.
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   Extend your learning beyond what school or college teaches you. If you're learning or have learned the basics in math, science and other subjects, find out what you've yet to learn and set about teaching yourself. There is much more beyond the basics and most of it will challenge you in much more interesting ways than your initial learning did.
   

   • If you did badly at a subject, do not let this hold you back. Every brain is plastic and capable of being rewired to relearn things and to learn new things. Tell yourself that not being able to do math, chemical equations or spell are just things from the past that you can remedy in the present. Then set about doing so.
   • Many textbooks for college and high school are useful starting points when teaching yourself or refreshing on the basics. Use these to get you on the right track, then extend your learning beyond them.
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   Read daily. Without fail, always read something, and make it substantial.
   

   • Read world history and learn about different cultures. Understanding history is a key to understanding the present. It is one of the finest ways of self-educating.
   • Read about others who self-educate. You will get a lot of tips and ideas for how to continue your own journey of self-improvement.
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   Be self-disciplined. Self-education requires very good self-discipline. You won't have people chasing you to meet deadlines, to get the answers right or to do your studying. It's all down to you and you'll need to keep yourself motivated. In itself, developing self-discipline is a very crucial part of self-education.

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   Learn in concert with other people. There are many ways to do this, all while continuing to self educate:
   

   • Associate yourself with educated people, groups, discussions.
   • Join a course or college to get a degree or few certificates at least.
   • Audit college level subjects. That means, no exams, just all pure learning. Soak it up.
   • Attend conferences, seminars, talks, etc. Just being among other people can give you a buzz, all while learning.
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   Listen to the senior citizens. They have lived through it all and have amazing memories of the things that were. You can, and will, learn a lot from them if you just take the time to sit with and listen to them.
   

   • Should you feel that what they tell you is old hat and odd, put aside your biases and really listen. There are authentic human things to learn from older people, regardless of where modern technology sits at any one time.
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   Go online. Join a MOOC (multi-online open course) or similar online learning courses. Many of these are free and will really push your learning beyond the simple. You can even interact with other peers learning and get and give feedback.
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   Observe the habits and behavior of educated people. Borrow from these people what you consider works well to improve the mind and understanding.Observe,learn and apply what you see good from them.
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   Choose a leader to follow or to role model for your life. Who inspires you? Who has said and/or done things that really made you sit up and listen and want to do too? These are the people who make a difference in life and you can make use of their inspiration to further your own learning and relevance.

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EditLearning Beyond the Basics

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   Become more worldly about spiritual beliefs. Self educating yourself in religion is an important way to understanding the deepest beliefs and feelings of humanity. Aim to learn all that you can about every religion and show all faiths respect.
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   Learn to be a good and thorough researcher. Research unearths many answers but many people do not have the patience or tenacity to be good researchers. This skill is a great one to develop, as it will empower you to find out many things, from the simplest (such as what time the library stays open until on the weekends) to the most complex (why do stars die?). But all the in between stuff matters too, the things that make the wheels of everyday life turn, such as resolving neighbor disputes over property lines, knowing how to get the local government to fix broken playground equipment and learning how to get an audience with your government representative. Knowing how to research the answers will give you a lot of handy answers to those questions that the curiosity you've been asked to cultivate with bring forth.
   

   • When researching or finding out something new, if you ever have the question 'why' or something related to that to a particular subject, then search up on it.

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EditUsing Your Self Education

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   Try to behave like an educated person, no matter how you feel. Try to act, then learn from your failures.
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   Share your knowledge. Make people aware that you know things through the way in which you converse and the way in which you interact with your fellow citizens. By being an informed and active citizen, you can make a positive difference to everyday lives and may even get engaged enough to help push through changes within your own community.

The 7 Greatest Ideas in History

 Creativity, Innovation

by Greg Satell

We all have ideas all the time.  Some are good, but rather ordinary, (like spontaneously buying flowers for your wife on the way home), some are bad (like buying her a knife set for her birthday) and others, like Google’s PageRank are unquestionably great.

Just a few stand out above all the rest.  They change the course of history and affect the lives of millions who aren’t even aware of them.  Amazingly, they are often the work of a single person.

Those ideas are truly great and seven really stand out.  To make my selection, I applied three criteria:  Longevity (i.e. they survive a long time without being amended or surpassed in any significant way), impact (i.e. they greatly affected the lives and work of others) and authorship (i.e. they can be traced to one person).  Here’s my list, see what you think.

Aristotle’s Logic

In terms of longevity, only Euclid’s geometry (which doesn’t make the list because of fuzzy authorship) can rival Aristotle’s logic.  Any time we say someone is being “illogical” or that an argument is valid, we are referring to Aristotle.  Amazingly, it sprung forth from his mind seemingly without precursor or precedent and lasted for two millennia.

As late as 1781, Immanuel Kant wrote:

That logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step and, thus, to all appearance has reached its completion.

That’s pretty amazing, two thousand years and nobody had been able to find any flaws or improve on the idea in any significant way.  At the core of Aristotelian logic is the syllogism, which is made up of propositions which consist of two terms (a subject and a predicate).  If the propositions in the syllogism are true, then the argument is true.

There are, of course, more complexities as you delve deeper, but what gives logic so much power is the simple concept that we can judge the validity of statements by their structure alone, even when stripped of their content.  If you follow the rules of logic, every statement you make will be valid (i.e. internally consistent).

Today, two thousand years later, Aristotle’s simple idea stands at the core of the information technology that runs our modern world.

Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems

Alas, all good things must come to an end and by the late 19th century logic’s seams began to show.  People like Frege and Cantor were among the first to try to patch up the system, but Russell’s paradox showed that those solutions too, were flawed.  Then David Hilbert came up with the idea of logic as a closed system and logic lived to fight another day.

That was until 1931, when 25 year-old Kurt Gödel killed it for good with his incompleteness theorems.

He created an incredibly innovative method called Gödel numbering to prove that all systems are either incomplete or inconsistent.  No matter how they are constructed, they will eventually end up with a statement that is both true and not true by the rules of the system.

It’s a seemingly small idea that has enormous consequences.  It means that every logical system will fail and every computer program  will crash, it’s just a matter of time.  You can never fix the system, because systems themselves are necessarily broken.

Gödel isn’t very well known, but he was clearly a genius of historic proportions.  He is interesting in another light as well, the amazing story of the friendship he struck up with Einstein.  You can read more about it in Palle Yourgrau’s excellent book, A World Without Time.

Newton’s Physics

In 1665, the great plague swept through Great Britain, eventually wiping out over 100,000 people, including 20% of London’s population.  As a safety measure, Cambridge university closed its doors in order to prevent further spread of the disease.  It remained shut for two years

One of the students, 23 year-old Isaac Newton returned having filled notebooks with the ideas that would eventually be published as Principia Mathematica.  In it, he laid out the principles of his laws of motion, gravity and calculus.  In two short years, he laid out the basic structures which formed the basis for modern science and engineering.

Centuries later, other men have built on the foundation that Newton created.  The buildings we live and work in as well as the bridges that we cross, owe a large debt to that extended summer vacation and stand as a testament to the power of one man’s mind.

Darwin’s Natural Selection

It’s unfortunate that Darwin is so controversial in some circles these days and that over half of Americans say they don’t believe in evolution.

In reality, whatever your religious beliefs, if you go to a modern hospital, take antibiotics, use the term meme, send things by UPS or even shop at Wal-Mart, you are, in some sense, showing an implicit belief in Darwin’s idea.

Many people think that Darwin came up with the idea of evolution, which he didn’t. What he really did was formulate a simple algorithmic process that explains an amazing array of natural phenomena:

If entities are subject to varying conditions;

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If resources are limited, resulting in a struggle for survival;

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If characteristics of individuals are passed to future generations;

Then a process will occur in which entities adapt to become more fit for the environment in which they need to survive.

In over 150 years, no one has found a flaw in the argument (although creationists argue that the first proposition doesn’t hold, thereby nullifying the argument’s force with respect to evolution).  Without Darwin’s theory, we couldn’t do modern epidemiology or create the genetic algorithms that make logistics systems run efficiently or lots of other things.

Very few ideas have been as powerful or been applied so widely to so many good ends.

Einstein’s Miracle Year

Much like Newton, Einstein brilliance sprung forth in a single burst of creativity.  In 1905, now known as his miracle year, the unknown patent clerk unleashed 4 papers of major significance and two of those ideas changed the course of science.

The first was the special theory of relativity, which I have described before, but the basic concept is that time and space are relative measures, not absolute quantities.   It sounds wacky, but GPS is corrected for his equations, so every time you use your car’s navigation system you are inadvertently proving it all over again.

He later added an appending note to his relativity paper when he realized that one of the ramifications was mass-energy equivalence, which he expressed in his famous formula:

E=mc²

The second paper of historical consequence was on the photoelectric effect, where he theorized that light was made up of discrete packets of energy he called quanta (although now known as photons).  Ironically, the idea led to the quantum mechanics, which he could never accept and spent the rest of his life trying to disprove.

Good thing he didn’t.  Most of modern electronics is based on that paper.

Shannon’s Information Theory

Much like Gödel, few people know of Claude Shannon.  He was a quiet, quirky sort, who liked to juggle and ride his unicycle around Bell Labs.

He spent most of the war years working on cryptography for the military, which is where he probably got the idea for his 1948 paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, which created the field of information theory (interesting, that was the same year his colleagues invented the transistor).

The basic idea was that information can be broken down into quantifiable entities he called binary digits (or bits for short), which represented two alternative possibilities, much like a coin toss.  Add up all of the coin tosses, and you arrive at the total amount of information that you need to communicate.

Not since Aristotle has such an important theory sprung forth from one man, seemingly out of thin air, which emerged full and complete and that had such enormous historical impact.  It touches everything we do in the digital age, from storing files on a disc to talking on a mobile phone to compressing videos so that we can watch them on YouTube.

Unlike many other geniuses of historical significance, Shannon wasn’t all about theory, he liked putting ideas into practice.  Most notably, applying his formidable mathematical skills in the stock market, where he made a fortune.

Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web

When Tim Berners-Lee was working as a systems administrator at CERN in the 80’s, he noticed a problem.  Physicists would come from all of the world, spend months peering into the mysteries of the universe, but could not communicate what they found with each other in an effective manner.

The problem wasn’t the hardware, the internet had been around for a while by then. Rather, the difficulty lay in that everybody was using different systems and could not easily display their information on a platform where everybody could find and access it.  He saw the need for a electronic filing system where ideas could be universally displayed.

So in November of 1989, he created the three protocols that make up the modern Web, HTTP, URL and HTML.  He continues to embellish the original idea at the World Wide Web Consortium, but those three pillars remain at the center of not only his creation, but allow us to so easily access all the great ideas that came before it.

As Isaac Newton once said, we truly do stand on the shoulders of giants.

– Greg

Quotes About Education

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen