Literately Uneducated!!! Or illeterately educated!!!

For generations we have heard learnt and been taught that education makes one civilized. Education is the door to success. That education is the only hope. But are we really educated or we still dwell in forests. At least in the jungle the lion is the king because of its strength and endurance. In politics the cunning and shrewdest mind gets to form a government. In the corporate world it is the ignorance and lackadaisical attitude that judges ones capability. Hence there is no doubt that the political and the business minded people walk hand in hand. Thus it is aptly said that in the business of politics there are no permanent enemies or friends. Anybody who is worth to be used as a means to achieve ones personal aspirations is welcome.

So has our education taught us to sleep over issues that need to be raised and brought out in the open? Why is it that only after retirement from a job one dedicates time for social causes? Is it a way to undo the wrong doings while in power? Has our education enabled us to close our eyes while unethical activities happen around us just because we are in need of the job, the recognition and the fame?
But I feel education teaches us to be in the system to beat the system, if, a wrong system. But who decides whether a system is right or wrong. For that I say ……….B L I N K!

Education teaches one to read and write; but that is also termed as being literate. So then what exactly it means to be educated? A SOUND EDUCATION DOESN’T MAKE ONE LEARNED BUT ONLY OPENS DOORS; FOR IGNORANCE TO GO OUT AND WISDOM TO ENTER. IT GIVES ONE THE QUALITY OF BEING PRUDENT & SENSIBLE. Thus a person even with the ability to read and write can still be literally uneducated if they cannot develop the qualities of being prudent & sensible. Or they can be illiterately educated if they fail to involve wisdom in their thoughts and actions.

- Or, at times we openly expect the other to know. Isn’t that a very clever decision and an apt way to camouflage ones lack of knowledge and an easy way to shrug off responsibility? Isn’t that what we call to be ignorant?
- Or, hide ones inability to speak for their own right or to cover up one’s own fear of spoiling their good and sober image in society, thereby protect their practiced fancy?
- Or, to refuse to accept our lack of courage/ guts to walk up and face the demon called fear?
- Or, is it that our education prevents us from speaking the truth; rather accept and console ourselves saying that is being practical.

Do we identify all those?

Does education teach us to be egoistic snobs or it imbibes in us a sense of pride and thereby a set of ethical principles.

Does it teach us to think out of the box or be inside the box and think of the world outside and become skeptical about it?

Are we aware of our shortfalls?

Does education teach us to use and manipulate or does it teach us to stand up and speak?

Does education teach us to be ethical or practical, to honor a promise or to breach a promise?

Does it allow us to hide the facts or encourage us to reveal the truth and be honest? Or sweet mouth and conceal the facts?

Does it give us the courage to look into the eye and speak or it injects fear into our veins?

Education doesn’t teach us any of the above, instead opens the world around us. It gives us the eyes to see and the ability to think. It gives us the freedom of thought and actions. It makes us more humane. It teaches us our moral and social responsibilities. It gives us self-realization, self-respect and teaches us self-esteem. But then, if it does teach us all these then why are we still blinded by the society and the practical world? Like a herd of cattle why do we blindly follow it?

This society is more interested in fun and in deciding for others. They are the ones who use their limited knowledge or the lack of it; by pushing the other beyond the lines of thinking; for their own betterment and a never ending dose of free entertainment.

Why do we forget that it is we who make the society; the society doesn’t make us.
For how long do we wish to remain trammeled within the walls created by our own ignorance that we fail to notice; we have become mere prisoners under trail for freedom?

Has education really helped us in any way? Have we awakened or are we still sleeping? Are we free finally or is our freedom still a distant dream?

So dear friends let us all rise and confirm that we are indeed

literately educated and not

literately Uneducated!!! Or illiterately educated!!!

Be Aware! Beware!!
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