EveryMan Learning

Knowing your whys from your wherefors can be one of those phrases that ancient relative toss at you when you’re desperately trying to extricate yourself from a pile of undone homework and are making rather a poor show of it!  There’s nothing more important in a child’s life than education – to parents and grandparents, this means the dull stuff that sometimes gets overlooked at school.  Some children absolutely love history and never have difficulty imagining themselves back in a particular period of time – Arthur and his Round Table is a good one for the lads.  The more romantic side of the Victorian era can often be the catalyst for lasses to get involved in the subject.

English language and literature were two of my absolute favourite subjects – the latter of course expanded on my growing appreciation of the former.  Using these skills in later life to understand everything in current affairs, necessary work instructions etc. can all form part of the whys and the wherefors.

When we think of Everyman we have to include absolutely everyone on this planet.  That of course is a generalisation but effectively true.  When we think of education and what is so abundantly available to every child from any background and any creed in this country, it seems almost obscene that some children cannot be bothered to go to school to take up this life enhancing opportunity.

However, sometimes when they reach early adulthood, youngsters to look back and regret those hourse spent idling with chums.  Really ruing the fact they messed up and cannot now get any kind of a job.    Getting educated is the one thing that has absolutely no detractors – it will assist us for the rest of our lives, whether in helping to get that job or keeping it when we’ve got it.  Learning isn’t all boring rote stuff.  There are the social skills too.

For the average family the expectancy is that each child will go to school, whether keenly or reluctantly doesn’t matter here, the fact they can go is the relevant issue.  Then we trust that the teachers will instill as much knowledge as possible into the brains of the children and that they will come out of school at the end of the conveyor belt as balanced, worthy and nice human beings!

some might do so well that they become teachers and lecturers themselves, or doctors, surgeons, bankers etc.  On the other hand, schools are able to see the potential in some children and get them streamed for great sporting careers or in the arts as singers, musicians etc.  Any child who faulters is picked up and helped along.  The same goes for those who missed out – online learning is a fantastic tool to help reinstate those years when effort didn’t come first.