Learning vs. Teaching

I don't really want to go to seminary right now. That fits in with my theory. Here it is. I don't like teaching, I like learning. Now I know in today's society those are confused as the same process. They're not. Teaching is directly passing on knowledge from one, to another. Learning is the acquiring of knowledge from one to another. This relates to mastery and apprenticeship. In the Middle Ages, masters of certain trades or skills posessed complete knowledge and expert power over that trade. They passed on the trade to their apprentices who worked with them, and learned by way of the master. A good example is in Star Wars, Jedi Masters would take on apprentices, and those apprentices would learn the way of the force by being in the presence of, watching, listening, and occasionally being taught by the master. They picked it up, all on their own, and learned it from the masters. If they survived being with the master, then one day they would be the master. That's why in Star Wars, the line "Always two, there is. A master, and an apprentice." Is so amazing. That shows, in my opinion, the true meaning of education and the process of passing on knowledge. In the ripe old age of modernism, we have allowed learning to become standardized to the point of teaching. I honestly think that the world could benefit from the tradition of mastery, apprentice. That's how I think school should work, and that's how I think education should be. Learning is teaching yourself. And honestly, think about the things you taught yourself. You know them and believe in them a lot more firmly than the things your teachers throw at you everyday, don't you? That's because learning works, teaching works only so far. So, to make my point about seminary, I don't want to go to seminary because a bunch of older, more experienced men, can't teach me exactly how to do something better than somebody who does it on a regular basis. I would just as happy to do ministry based on the things I've learned from my youth ministers, the things I've taught myself, the things I’ve learned from life, and the things that I will learn instead of going to school and having somebody tell me how to do it. Of course, this is how I feel right now. This all might change in a few years, it might change overnight. Who knows.
Now, please, don't get me wrong. I think this works about as far as we allow it to work, but I also think that for today, the normal educational process is the most efficient way to pass on knowledge. I don't ardently believe in all of what I said, it's my theory on how it could be done. I think, in a few years, the afore menitoned process could work. Not right now, but it could work. For now, though, I'm going to go through the normal processes of learning. I still believe, though, in learning over teaching.