Creative Writing

                                          On Education

               What do you think is the right kind of education? I have no intension to harangue you by crafting this piece of work, but I just have multitude of ‘never- answered queries’, which I really wish you to ponder over. Even when I try to think about my own educational background or status, I wonder what kind of an education I acquired throughout my learning life. Does education simply mean to own a number of certifications? Does it really mean being inside the four walls of a classroom, listening to the lectures delivered? Does it mean plumbing each subject so deep to become a brainier? Nelson Mandela said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. How are we expected to change the world with the present blunt education which is only meant for the acquisition of a so called ‘position in life’?

                   When one gets the right kind of education, he or she develops the ability to think abstractly and to act accordingly. The process of knowledge transmission ought to be multidimensional as it should touch each and every aspect of human life. Does today’s educational system facilitates such a kind of process? If yes, to what extend? Does it encompass the conveyance of basic human virtues and ensure that such a knowledge transmission is carried out? One needs a great deal of informal education than the formal one in order to become a complete man. Considering the point of informal education that the formal one because one is born and brought up doesn’t mean that he or she is informally well educated since it greatly depends on a person’s personal and cultural background. So it varies.

             The right kind of education happens when educational institutions provide a conducive  atmosphere to the pupils to attain a balance between formal and informal education that enables  a person to have a proper existence in the world. Also, a person is said to be rightly educated only if he or she even after failing to remember the academics, still exists as a being of virtue. As Albert Einstein rightly pointed out, “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in the school”.