A small
human child is educated to distance himself from things that may threaten his
survival. When he grows a little more, we educate him to learn how to survive
with lesser difficulties. Then, he is educated to learn how to survive as much
comfortably as it may be possible.
For as long as a human being is
generally educated in a particular human society or he, himself opts for it, he
is made to learn the science, technique or art of physical survival.
If we ever do it at all, when do
we educate him to learn what a man actually needs to learn having been born as
a human being? And, if we don’t do it, do we educate him to learn to set
himself free, at some point of time in his life, to
seek the answer to this mighty question?
Even the best of the
philosophies fail to sufficiently highlight that most human societies fail to
highlight that they provide incomplete education, and that the responsibility of
educating himself further is that of the human being. Maybe, this is the reason
why we human beings never learn to raise appropriate questions about our lives
and are forced to rely on spurious answers to satisfy our ‘basic need’ to know
what must be known in the course of our lives. Is it the reason for malignant
growth of ‘religious confusions’ with the growth of education that teaches how
best we can survive physically?
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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