Why Blogging Is Better Than School
Hello Blogging Tips readers. My name is Debbie and I’ll be posting here every Friday. For this first post, I would like to share my basic philosophy about learning how to blog.
Blogging is not hard. Sure, there’s a learning curve involved, especially the deeper you dive into the technological end, but in its essence, blogging is very simple. People think blogging is hard because they get stuck in schoolish thinking.
See, I don’t care for institutional school. I think it kills curiosity and makes many people lose confidence in their ability to learn. I don’t want you to be stuck for even one more day in this trap so let’s take a look at how schoolish thinking can get in the way of your blogging goals.
In school, teachers are necessary for learning. Now, it’s perfectly fine to have a teacher when it comes to blogging. You may even choose to have several. Just don’t hang onto the schoolish idea that you HAVE to have one. You can learn to blog without a teacher if you want.
In school, there is only one correct answer. If you follow this view, you can spend so much time searching for the right answer, you never move forward. In blogging there are usually many solutions to the same problem.
In school, mistakes are bad. A big part of the success and fun of blogging is experimenting, and mistakes are just another way to learn. As a matter of fact, those who jump in and try new ideas often find themselves on the cutting edge. So go ahead, experiment in your blogging lab. You won’t blow up the internet.
In school, you don’t get to choose the topic you are going to study. When blogging, you get to choose a topic you are truly interested in. Plus, you can go as deep as you want into the subject because there will be no teacher or bell to make you stop and move on to the next class.
In school, they group kids according to ability. No matter how bad you think you are at blogging, you will never be put into the “special blogging class.”
In school, cheating is bad. But looking at your neighbor’s “paper” is a good way to learn how to blog. Read it and analyze what you like and what you don’t like.
In school, you’re required to wear a uniform and remain at your desk. But when blogging, you can do it in your underwear if you like. Or you can go outside. I recommend putting on some clothes if you do go out.
In school, class clowns are frowned upon. The blogosphere loves them. Many people read blogs for the entertainment value so don’t be afraid to get crazy and have some fun.
Now that you understand better how schoolish thinking interferes with good blogging, don’t you agree it’s time to drop out?
Written by Debbie Harbeson from Debbie HarbesonPosted on April 3rd, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Indeed blogging is liberating. It sends you out of the box you are so accustomed with and the conventional way of looking at things. Blogging frees the mind, even grammar and syntax.
Nice one. One more reason why blogging is better than school is that you can learn stuff in blogging at your own pace.
I think this post is going to get a lot of positive comments from young school-going bloggers.
But people of other countries except english speaking countries can’t blog proper until they learn english in their school. But probably I agree that youngsters including me would hate school
Ganesh,
You are so right! For real learning to happen, it’s vital to go at your own pace. We all process information in different ways and some learners need more time to just let a new idea or thought digest in their brains in order to really understand and learn. Then others might take a new idea and start experimenting and doing something with it immediately. It really doesn’t matter how you learn best, what matter is that you have the curiosity and interest to persist. You’ll learn. You’ll improve. And if you relax, you’ll have fun.
Harish,
It’s certainly true that a good firm knowledge of English will help a blogger who wants to communicate with his or her readers in English. However, blogging is also being done in lots of languages. Even if someone wants to ultimately be able to blog in English, he can start by just blogging in his native language. Everything is a learning process. Heck someone could start a blog detailing their experiences in learning English. What resources they are finding useful, mistakes they’ve made, etc., etc. There are a lot of people who’d want to read a blog about that don’t you think?
Also, I would like to suggest we all rid ourselves of ideas like ‘blog proper.’ That’s exactly the sort of thinking that stops a lot of people from just getting out there and trying to learn something new. Lastly, I don’t think ’school’ is necessary to learn English or any language for that matter. Now everyone, get out there and have some fun learning.
@Debbie I agree. When something’s fun, people give it their best. The same goes for blogging too.