The Essay - 3

What should concern prospective professional educators/teachers/ facilitators/ mediators/ gurus(experts/masters) and education theorists is, however, not just the definitions and the points of origin or the goals and aims of education, but the process itself. It is the process that needs to be monitored because it is the part of education that has had least light cast upon it from the detached and metacognitive perspective of thinkers and practitioners who critique and analyse what happens in education. They pay attention to precedents and antecedents, and study whether the new systems put in place of the old have met their objectives and have measurable outcomes that can be quantified as to whether they are more effective than what came before. While this might seem 'simplistic' generalization to some, and indeed it no doubt is if looked at from a positivist point of view, it is written with this end in mind that , to put it 'simply', no amount of attention paid to the process of education can be too little if education is to constantly improve.