Education - An increasing Blurr

Education – it is the single most important aspect of human development. It gives us the power to analyze and judge not just the world around us but more importantly the world within us. It is this very ability of self analysis and judgment that makes the educated the crème de la crème of God’s greatest creation.

At this point we might be feeling very proud of our self, we read the papers, we are well informed of what’s going on around us, we’ve been to schools, we hold recognized jobs and healthy bank balances. All this merriness in life leads us to admire the power of our ‘educated minds’.  But how can something as materialistic as a bank balance be a measure of something as deep and profound as the art of education?

Yes we can read and write and yes we try and remain well informed about the world and yes we try and acquire as much knowledge as we possibly can. But sadly education goes way beyond the realm of knowledge. And it is this distinction between knowledge and education that seems to have diminished in modern times. Knowledge is not the objective, knowledge is not education, if anything it is the means to education. Reading through the pages of our books and remembering what they say – that’s gaining knowledge - but to go beyond mere words, to search for and contemplate their true meaning – that’s gaining education.

Education is the development of the mind over the brain. It’s the capability to look beyond the apparent workings of life and uncovering a world of self belief and self righteousness, a world where I, me and mine turn into we, us and ours. Now how many of us have uncovered this world? How many of us put the needs of others above or even alongside our own?

Think again people how many of us are truly educated?