Education is the process of learning how to make decisions and discover fact. Philosophy is the field that provides a rigorous study of how we learn and how we can make better decisions through critical thinking and logic. It also helps us weed out beliefs from facts. My favorite philosopher is Epicurus, because he was wise enough to see the connection between desires and our behavior, elevating hedonism as something practical. My favorite philosopher is Heraclitus, for we think, or thought alike.
Philosophy is concerned with issues of enduring importance to humankind.
These are lasting questions that have been raised through the centuries and, in various forms, addressed by all human cultures and traditions. Nonetheless, they are questions raised, understood and assessed with respect to the conditions of a given time and place. Socrates and Confucius engaged philosophical issues by addressing the conditions within which they lived. In the last two hundred years we have come increasingly to live in a world that is the product of our own technological powers. The world in which we now live cannot function nor can it be conceived apart from our technologies.