We live in a world that's constantly changing - accepting and rejecting, building and destructing ,creating and re-creating! Yet not all changes are beneficial. What we need is a 'positive alteration' to make our world a better place and undoubtedly education exists as the most powerful tool for bringing about this requisite 'positive change' within and around us.
Education is the backbone of a well co-ordinated and smoothly functioning society.
A society cannot stand powerful until and unless its people are not aware of their duties, rights and responsibilities and will collapse sooner or later. Sooner perhaps than later.
A society cannot stand powerful until and unless its people are not aware of their duties, rights and responsibilities and will collapse sooner or later. Sooner perhaps than later.
So, by simply logic we can conclude that a major share of our everyday problems breach out because of lack of education. And by education , I mean learning in its true 'pragmatic' form and not just what our Institutions boast to impart. From violence against women to road rage, from public hygiene to child abuse, from corruption to horrendous crimes- the real parasite is 'illiteracy'. those vacant, ignorant and unintelligent minds that have been let loose to wander. Ann Radcliffe says,
- "A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness".
- Last week, while strolling in a mall with my 8 year old brother, I suddenly looked behind to find him running towards the litter Bin. As I stood there to understand what exactly was he up to,I realized he had actually ran to throw an ice- cream wrapper lying on the floor.
- That's when I envisioned the real role those colourful EVS books have - sensitizing the young minds towards their environment to make them turn into responsible and vigilant citizens of the country.
- "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth". - Diogenes Laertius
- So,instead of cribbing and complaining why not become a tool to weed out the diseases of a vacant mind?
- Look around in your locality or even our own homes and educate to bring about a change.
- By education I don't mean the books or the languages. By education I mean the real purpose of learning.
- As B.F. Skinner puts it,
- "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten".
- Telling the maid why she should send her daughter to school is education.
- letting the rag- picker understand how plastic harms the environment is education.
- Teaching a little girl about her sanitation and safety is education.
- Informing the auto-rickshaw driver the advantages of saving fuel is also education.
- Let each one of us, teach one of us. That's the change I want, Education for all.
Each one, teach one
your maids daughter
or neighbours son
use your knowledge
to awaken the minds
let it not fade away
raise your voice
not to complain
but to shackle the faults
let your words travel
deep and ringing
in the minds of wrongdoers
you have the power
for a word taught
is a crime curbed
play it wise
and break the stereotypes
you have the strength
remember 'KNOWLEDGE IS POWER' !
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