Simply Education

        

         For all of your life, education is the best dynamic weapon that you could carry against ignorance. But how do we really define education? Well, if we are going to consult a dictionary, education is the systematic training of the moral and intellectual faculties. Meanwhile, according to Benjamin Disraeli, “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” It can mean that education is the best cure for most curiosity, but if you are not contented enough, you are free to explore more new things and here is where we can now say  that  education will be your  best capital and foundation in life. As long as you have enough knowledge, you can explore and innovate that can help to change the world and will bring you into success at the same time. But don’t worry; no one can get it from you; no one can ever steal it from you. That is what most of teachers or professors tell to their students, one’s property or wealth can be stolen anytime, but one’s knowledge can never be stolen. However, one does not simply gain lots of knowledge about different fields and aspects of life in an instant, of course he must also earn it, maybe, for a year or a decade that’s why we are spending many years of our lives studying.

          And by the way, have you ever asked yourself why you should spend many years of your life studying?  There are three possible explanations for your answer. First, if you answered that society requires it, your parents want it, people just advise it, friends and other people go through it, you may tend not to see and appreciate the role and value of education. Rather, you look at it as a requirement that must be accomplished. Second, if you answered that you will become more knowledgeable, better equipped and trained and greater chances of success, you see education as a stairway to success. Education for you is a tool, a means to an end. And third,  if your answer is that you will cope better with the ups and downs of life, to become a better person, and be able to answer with confidence life’s constant questions (such as true or false, and right or wrong), you believe personhood, not academic excellence, is the first aim of education. For you, real purpose of man’s existence is not to earn a living but to live a life.

          Anyway, I think we must believe to Thomas Alva Edison’s saying, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” In fact, successful men are the men who have worked, read, and thought more than was absolutely necessary. They were not contented enough for what they had since they knew that they have knowledge sufficient for the present need but still sought more knowledge and stored it away for the emergency reserve. Every one of us may have different perspectives about education, but we have to set into our minds that education aims to give children resources that will endure  as long as life endures. Education will always be our greatest wealth from this world that anyone can hope to acquire to be the greatest equalizing instrument in the society. 

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