Liberation from University Education: A Lesson in Humility for a Helper

Abstract

On the first day of my Masters of Social Work degree, the faculty dean warned the students: “Don’t let us school the humanity and humility out of you.” Unfortunately, this is essentially what traditional education does. For most of my post-secondary education, I feigned professional conduct in an attempt to appear capable and competent, memorizing content and separating myself from the learning. Despite the alienation I felt, I was able to convince myself that I was learning and getting as much as I could out of higher education—until I participated in Inside-Out.

Only what you have experienced yourself can be called knowledge. Everything else is just information.

Albert Einstein