I’ve been thinking about it day and night, trying to figure out where the problem lies, trying to seek for a root cause… it’s almost the hundredth time, I’m seeing singhvi trying to explain the congress’s stand, and the bjp counterpart arguing on how much the government lacks governance and the excited journalist, posing questions to excite the two parties against each other with another specialist on the topic of discussion… A different day, a different topic, but the same scenario… the journalist, just can’t believe or understand that people don’t understand common sense… that politicians are more busy about their own lives than the main cause, and that the public is too tired to try to understand what’s happening where, and that people’s understanding limit is just “out-of-scope” ….
You see, the main problem lies, in understanding that the other person can’t see your perspective, cause that person isn’t tuned to your neural settings, and of course, no matter how hard you try, there’ll always be some things, that you have to sort out yourself, or be at peace with it… now, that’s talking about just normal human psychology.. But when I am talking about a larger picture, I’m talking about something like, common sense isn’t common sense to everyone, and what you see, is what others can’t… you know, you’ve heard all these ceremonious claps when people give a lecture, or say that how “they, themselves are responsible, rather than blaming anyone….yada…yada… ” .. Well, yes, we, as a society as a whole ARE responsible, but let me ask you, that rather than making all these flashy, “so true” comments, how much have you done from your side, and that do you even know the root cause… ? Claiming about something, without knowing the root cause, is like climbing up a pine tree looking for coconuts… I mean really… and then when you sit down with them, you go about how people should do this and that, and I silently stare… thinking… trying to tell.. “those people don’t see, what you are trying to tell”… I know you’d be like “how can they not see… I mean its so obvious..”… well, the point I am trying to make is, all people haven’t been brought up the way you have… and you know, you see all these characterless people making the news headlines, well, its more cause they weren’t educated the right way… and if you see, people being more self-absorbed, treating on the basis of caste etc… or even spitting and peeing on the roadside… cause they just weren’t educated… from the very complicated politics to the very usual “ethics” of living… people are not educated enough… Yes, I mean education… Education, not in the words of learning how to read and write and pass tests… but education, as in being taught, a way of living, a way of existing in peace and harmony with surroundings… it’s not about poverty or overpopulation, (though it adds up to the stress), but mainly about being educated the right way… of gaining knowledge and finding solace in it… well, I can’t blame the students for it, cause you see, it is a very vicious downward spiral… of uneducated teachers teaching students what they think they know… and students aligned into doing what they should do, without questioning… (something that most parents assert since the time they were born)… now, uneducated doesn’t mean illiterate, it rather means, that they are not teaching for the fun of it, or for the joy of opening young minds to another world.. (most probably they too were never shown the way, and thus incapable of surpassing knowledge that they never knew of.. ) … its not about the salary or personal life, but more than that… more about the joy of work itself and not another burden… and that’s something that goes for all kinds of job that people do… but I’m focusing on teachers more, cause they directly affect a child from birth.. You see, being born, is a blessing, if one can make the best of it.. You see, the best part of being born is, there’s everything unknown, everything that can be learnt in any way you like… almost any way that you can be mould to… but the beauty lies in the sculptor, but if the sculptor is no sculptor at all, then you end up with unfinished works that lead to disarrayed lives… sometimes, I see those parents sending their children school, hoping that the children would gain knowledge and be something “big” or take them off their plight… but you see, what is being taught, isn’t actually being taught at all… they are only fed with information to memorize, and nothing to look forward or delve into… and even all those fancy schools, with those amazing infrastructure, A.Cs and top class technology… I am not sure, if the human resource itself is as classy…
Seeing the larger picture, being who you are, seeing more than just the mundane workings of people, understanding ethics, cause it comes naturally to you…. And discussing, questioning, living … !!! That’s what’s education is about !!! Of being able to comprehend.. And common sense being more common to everyone… it all starts from the very beginning… from the very day you step into the world of consciousness… of being able to tune yourself to the existing frequencies of “having a character” and an identity…. Of respect and worth… and now, we can’t just go around blaming all the teachers of the world with the assigned job of a “teacher” cause infact you are a teacher itself, the moment you surpass an information or something that instigates the person you are talking to, is teaching in itself.. Of interaction… of sharing… of existing… !! So yes, everyone is responsible, but this time, I hope you see why …..
So educate… Educate the ones around you, educate them about things they do not know, or haven’t known, it maybe difficult for students of older age, but can nevertheless give it a try… and never miss any opportunity to share any knowledge you have or would like to spread…
Educate, cause it means more than just literacy…
