Learning in the Key of Life.

In the article "Learning in the Key of Life" by John Spayde, the in-the streets education is brought up. Spayde puts aside the tunnel vision education we learn in school and favors the education that we learn in everyday life. "A truly good education may be on the best we can make of school, salon, reading, online exploration, walking the streets, hiking in the woods, museums, poetry classes at the Y, and friendship." (p.64) This is something I would like to call streets smarts. Some people are really good at sticking with the curriculum and reading the books and receiving the A's. Others learn more outside the classroom with street smarts. Things learned outside the classroom learned from life. I agree with Spayde that in-the-streets education. Most of the stuff that we learn from life and experience is going to be remembered more than stuff you learned in the classroom.
Now don't get me wrong, school education is very important. School education is power its money and is "the beginning of the engagement between ideas and reality." Spayde would label this as fast knowledge. Where there is a fast knowledge there is a slow knowledge, "slow knowledge is the aim of resilience, harmony, and the preservation of long-standing patterns that give our lives aesthetic, spiritual, and social meaning." (p.67) Now its not that easy to just sit down and decide to learn slow knowledge. Especially in this day and age when everything is 24/7 and everyone seems to be competing against one another. Spayde proposes the idea of a four day work week. (p.68) That would be nice but would probably jack up our economy. In my opinion I believe that everyone should learn the way they love to learn. If learning fast knowledge makes you happy and you like doing it then go ahead and learn it. Its about finding a way that is most suitable to your personality and going for it.