What's really going on...

    I have recently been learning about something that I think may interest you. It’s the difference between, training, instruction and education. I know they all seem like similar things but you were just telling you don’t really buy into the “training” thing, and given the situation you may be 100% correct. I mean, take the word training for instance. You train your dog to do something, you don’t education or instruct your dog. So it turns out that the term training is something you teach someone and that something becomes automatic, like the alphabet for example. Now instruction is something very different, it’s more generalized. I can teach you concepts and I may give you 10 examples of this one objective, but in the real world, you may find a new one…but if I instructed you correctly you’ll be able to apply that instruction to this new situation. The last one is Education, which again is different than the other two terms. Education is expanding the learning well beyond a single scenario like instruction does. Education will allow you handle a much wider range of situations and education often comes from experiences that aren’t even taught at all, but rather learned through experience.  So if you think about the quote “training” you’ve had, you’re right! it may not have been of a huge value, but it might have been a good starting point for you to get further instruction, and ultimately become educated on the topic. They all compliment one-another but they aren’t applicable to each thing that we need to learn.