101 Ways to Get Educated

There are more than one ways in which one can get educated. This is a list which I found on the net... pretty inspiring and insightful !

1. Grow enough grain for one loaf of bread -- and make and eat the loaf
2. Answer ALL the questions of a 3 year old for a week
3. Spend a day alone in a wild place
4. Follow your trash to its final resting place
5. Collect food and blankets and spend a day giving them to homeless people taking the time to stop and talk about life
6. Help in the birth of a lamb, cow, or horse
7. Visit a slaughter house (try to withhold judgment)
8. Organize a rite of passage ceremony for an adolescent, someone at mid-life, or yourself
9. Switch genders for the day
10. Build a house (your own, or for Habitat for Humanity)
11. Ask a low rider how the lifters on their car work
12. Apprentice yourself to someone you've always wanted to learn from
13. Take a picture of you and all your stuff in front of the place where you live. Compare it to the pictures in Peter Menzel's Material World
14. Read the sacred texts of another tradition
15. Imagine your most delicious relationship and then go first
16. Work for a week on an assembly line
17. Spend a week without stepping in a car. Pay attention to how your town looks from a bike, bus, or sidewalk
18. Exchange tutoring with a teenager - math or bicycle repair in exchange for Web browsing, skate boarding, dance, or ??
19. Go to someone else's church, synagogue, or place of worship
20. Go on a vision quest
21. Take a dance class from a different culture
22. Interview the oldest person you can find; record the conversation
23. Interview a child
24. Imagine a day in your life 15 years from now
25. Plant and care for a tree
26. Ask yourself, "What if everyone in the world behaved the way I am behaving?"
27. Get the names of the favorite books of your dentist, grocery store clerk, mother, co-worker, and your minister/rabbi/priest or spiritual guide. Read those books
28. Pretend to be someone else on the Internet
29. Trace your water supply back to its source - and follow it down the drainpipes to its destiny
30. Finger paint
31. Spend a day in a neighborhood where you've never been before - without carrying any money
32. Ask your friends, and your ex-friends, to anonymously send you a list of your five best and five worst character traits
33. Live for a day off your garden
34. Channel surf for an evening; ask yourself what about the programs is drawing people
35. Be quiet for 5 minutes per day; increase gradually to 20
36. Ask a young person what's on his or her mind and heart, and listen (don't try to 'fix it')
37. Figure out when and on what part of your dwelling the sun's rays fall at different times of year (for extra credit: calculate the photovoltaic potential of your roof)
38. Take a year off
39. Read a foreign newspaper
40. Meditate on the life of your unborn grandchild
41. Talk to the janitor
42. Assume that everything is your responsibility, if not your fault
43. Examine a handful of compost or rich soil under a microscope
44. Go without food for three days
45. Watch a child being born
46. Write a creation myth
47. Visit an observatory, and look at the stars through a big telescope
48. Map the creeks, streams, and rivers in your watershed
49. Choose six jobs that interest you; find someone to interview for each and spend a day working alongside them
50. Watch a snail
51. Find out what percentage of the world's financial wealth is owned by the top 50 corporations, and how much by the 50 wealthiest people
52. Visit the emergency ward of a major hospital
53. Sleep outside under the stars
54. Discuss these questions with a friend : If the Universe is finite, what happens at its edge ? If it's infinite, how did it get there ? If the Universe started 15 billion years ago, what was there before it started? Does time go on forever ?
55. Visit a spiritual healer
56. Find out what the clerk at the grocery store is thinking about
57. Follow your electric wires to the source of the electricity
58. Learn to line dance
59. Spend two hours with a counsellor exploring your life
60. Pick three trees of different species and spend an hour meditating under each one
61. Go on a week-long solo journey by bus, bike, or foot to a place you've never been; listen to the people you meet
62. Learn how to build a wall
63. Fall in love
64. Take a bicycle to pieces and put it together again
65. Visit a Native American reservation and talk with the people you meet about their past and future
66. Learn how to give a good massage
67. Spend a day watching a state or provincial legislature at work
68. Calculate how much carbon dioxide your family is adding to the atmosphere each year
69. Ask a good friend to share the most important lessons he or she has learned about sex and how to make love
70. Perform menial or repetitive work at a job that lasts at least a week
71. Read primary sources on history, science, social science (that is, avoid the authors who are interpreting the work of others)
72. Carry all your trash around with you for a week. At the end of the week, weigh it all
73. Write an episode of one of the current top-rated sitcoms on commercial TV; explain the story line to a friend
74. Repair a damaged relationship
75. Start that band/garden/book/art movement you told yourself you'd always do
76. Throw the biggest party you can; try to get someone from every decade dancing
77. Ask your parents about their relationship
78. Refuse to do meaningless work for one week
79. Offer to help your child's teacher
80. Admit that you don't know and ask for help
81. Tell people how you are really doing
82. Go to a punk rock or hip-hop show
83. Sell your car and go to India
84. Seek out a friend of a different race & class
85. Ask people what they are planning to do about the year 2000 computer bug
86. Calculate the total miles traveled from the towns labeled on food cans in your pantry
87. Ask a kid about divorce
88. Teach yourself to play guitar
89. Go to the industrial section of town and see how much free stuff is available (go dumpster diving)
90. Make a movie about your neighborhood
91. Visit the nearest creek once a week for a month and notice changes along the banks, in the water flows, in the pools
92. Collect dumpling recipes from around the world; throw a dumpling party
93. Imagine yourself looking back on your life at 90 years of age: what are the highlights? Who has been most important? What do you wish you had done?

Now go out and do those things, thank those people and live those highlights.