Education to me is finding a way to achieve a goal. Teaching and learning is a two way street that should promote freedom and responsibility while developing a person s own ideals about the way one perceives basic facts. Teaching is handing an idea out and letting another mind take that knowledge and expand on it, even rebuild it. This means that there has to be a strong emphasis on basic skills and disciplined knowledge through scholastic strides and achievements. If a person can be guided towards basic facts, then it should be obvious if a person can decipher them and draw their own conclusions thus expanding their own personal freedom.
Teachers have a strong role in the education process.
Teachers have to strategically plan and stimulate so they can be effective. Teachers have to cultivate and provoke rational thought so that the students may be challenged. School is where children come to learn the basic skills that they need, but at the same time they should receive guidance or they will never accomplish these tasks no matter how minuscule. So, as a teacher I have to decide what is important, then how to convey that to the students. The key to me is the convergence of that knowledge of the teacher to the student.