Happiness is that feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you can’t help but smile. It’s the opposite of sadness.

Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness. The “pursuit of happiness” is something this country is based on, and different people feel happiness for different reasons.

Whenever doing something causes happiness, people usually want to do more of it. No one ever complained about feeling too much happiness.

Effective education is a learning experience.

Education brings about an inherent and permanent change in a person’s thinking and capacity to do things.

Many people have a superficial concept of education; equating it with doing a particular course or obtaining a particular qualification.

Qualifications and courses however do not always equate with effective education.

• People can undertake courses without any significant permanent change.
• People can achieve qualifications without changing.

How Good is a Qualification?

There’s no escaping the fact that good learning takes time.

Reading a book and understanding what you read, does not mean that you have been educated (or permanently changed), if you don’t integrate what you read into your attitudes and memory. Similarly, attending a course and hearing a lecture doesn’t mean you have changed or been educated.

Real education is very different to just having access to (or being exposed to) information about something. Real education embeds things into one’s brain, and anyone who understands learning will understand that this comes from repeated exposure and use of information or skills.

Sadly, in today’s world, people want to fast track everything: but learning is something that cannot usually be fast tracked.

Shorter courses simply mean that less is learnt.