YOU'RE fucking easy.

Easy?

You think it's easy?

Do you think understanding humans is easy? Do you think assessing all the little bits and pieces of the world and developing a way to inform a human being how to be, is easy? Do you think being in itself is easy?

I understand that at many times I use very deprofessionalising terms to speak of my chosen study - Early childhood education. I deduce it to sentences strung like soiled nappies and kitschy paraphernalia but this is in no way a representation of education, nor my interpretation of what I do or wish to do. I understand the mindset that it is "easy", that education is a natural skill - that is, to know how to learn and how to teach but in an unnatural world, I beg to question what exactly are we teaching and to who is it appropriate? What is relevant, what is optimal, what is it we want, what is it societies, communities annd families want, and what does the child want? Education is something I cannot stand people misunderstanding and demeaning. And I have surely heard a few snarky comments lately. A friend who does not understand my dedication and passion and what education is, can kindly exit. Ironic as it is, the remedy I'd recommend would be - get a little educated.

Sure, the statistics in that business unit you need to hammer through is tedious, and the reports on whatever readings you need to complete come in batches at the most inconvenient of times, but what is education in an international context? Can you even define such a thing and what structure should its content hold, what questions to be solved, what values to be believed, what wrongs to be condemned? And if you don't know, then how do you teach it? How do you even know what to try? And what happens when every single person is every single person and not all the same thing we can apply a concrete set of rules and techniques to? What happens when most days carry change so dynamic that confusion is startled for we've got no clue what is good or bad for future generations?

I don't think of my degree solely as any specific occupation (and especially not as my current position - child care centre educator). I enjoy my studies as much as I do because it is mind broadening. I am sure we all think of human sciences in a somewhat warm regard. Afterall, we're human, we like to be understood and to understand each other. So why not when we are young, when much of our learning is imperative to our later development? Babies are not empty slates. Children are not undeveloped adults. They are people of their own with minds and hearts that operate differently then gradually, similiarly because we teach them to. 

Children are able.

They used to call us workers. Nowadays, I would like to say the term is actually educators. 

We are the intervenors, we direct, not control, we embrace, not discard, we care for diversity, not inequality, we interact, not talk at. Learning isn't measured by academic tests. Your child understanding their own body by crawling is learning just as much your child learning algebra. Teaching your child affection through how you treat them is as much teaching as writing them an exam and marking it with blood red pens. It angers me that child care centres can be run as businesses but primary and above education cannot be run this way. Is the beginning of a child's life able to be trivialised, demeaned and made an economic exchange? Society thus far has answered this question in the affirmative. Who can we blame? Answer me, does it discomfort you that your young child will be treated as a tool to earn profits from? That the well being of your child isn't ensured because there is quite frankly, hardly any incentive for educators to bother (other than our own passions, love and responsibility)?

I'd like to see how any one person can tell me education is an easy discipline. It may be easy to find a job, and easy to do your job but who is doing it right? Who the fuck is doing it well? Tell me the 'right' way to be a human in simple actions and words and I'll pass it on. Something that is timeless too, let's not forget that little detail, and oh, it also has to apply to all humans regardless of their differences. 

Yeah, you try that. Tell me how it goes.

If you fail to see the complexity of education, you only express how much you are failing to see the complexity of being human, and that to me, is pretty fucking clueless.