Education and Experience
I’ve had training in a number of areas during the course of my life, and I may very well go through that process again in some form or another. It seems like I’ve gotten educated in a lot of unrelated fields, but the further I delve into my current field working with movement and balance, the more I see that without each of the other fields,
my perspective on movement would be diminished.
So I’ve been wondering about the relationship between education and the application of that education.
All my life, after reaching the end of every form of training, I felt ready to get out there and do what I had been trained to do.
Fully qualified.
Invariably I found I was indeed qualified, but not the way I thought. I was qualified to get out there and get the experience I needed to become good at what I’d gotten some training to do. After I became good at what I was doing, I realized how little I had known
when I thought I was trained and fully qualified.
Hmmm.
You gotta start somewhere, I guess.
When I look back at my disparate trainings, I can see they were all reinforcing the foundation for the process of
continuing to learn through experience.
For my students and for myself, learning to observe movement and apply the knowledge gained from that to everything in life
is where the real benefit lies.
Education and experience help you get there, but
learning is what’s important.
Photo by Edwin Andrade