Mandela once said that “education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world”. By looking at the modern world, I highly doubt this statement. Even though I use this statement day in day out to convince people that education is important, I myself doubt that the real value of education is still not uncovered. Learning is a part of education as many scholars believe. Learning is changing behavior and patterns of living. Renowned scholars have researched on experimental learning and concluded that it is an integral part of changing behavior. We all do experimental learning and it begins from our childhood. The best example for this is the behavior of children. A little kid falls down while trying to run after a dog, little thing starts crying because he hurts his leg. Next time when he runs after another animal he will recall back his past experience of hurting his leg and will try to avoid the pain by not running after it too fast. We identify and name this experimental learning. I started questioning myself the point in people gaining educational qualifications without learning how to live life. What has happened to experimental learning?
Learning to live differs from living to learn. How many of us actually live to learn. I am sure that most of us learn to live and we take life as it comes. We never consider the fact that there's a whole new world waiting to be found. A little after thought came to me after reading a novel today, written by a man who has heaps of educational qualifications and buckets of knowledge. It made me question myself, the values of education and how our mind reacts to certain situations when we are put to the sword. I was shattered about the bitter truth uncovered in the novel. It was expressed in a very dramatic way to capture the audience as well as to hide a little truth to the story and expose it as fiction. I did notice that the writer tried his level best to leave out emotional attachment but failed miserably in certain acts. His unconscious mind overtook his natural thinking. Mind is a strange thing, and more we try to control it the more it will act on its own. It is important to people to learn how to control the mind because of the very fact, that mind governs every action carried out by humans.
The bottom line of the story is to note that education is important to everyone and learning is the key to education since we need to adjust patterns of behaviors. Try to work on yourself, improve your skills and develop your thinking to serve better. Stop judging individuals and try to work on your own self. After all who are we to judge people, when we all have skeletons in our own closets.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Life as we know it…
It is strange isn’t it when you think about life. The hopes and dreams that we had for ourselves when we were little. If we reflect back on the years gone by can we be happy? We all dream of a fairy tale but it won’t be long when reality hits hard on us and when it does, it will make you understand that there is a difference between fantasy and reality.
People sometimes try to achieve something greater and some try to survive. I always tried to understand why we do this to ourselves and I never found an answer to that query. It is quite strange that for some people this is not even a question but for others like me it’s always a problem. I always wanted to find this truth and find answers why we suffer so much in life to achieve something that is far beyond us. Then again you sometimes believe that this is what helps you to live. You may have a different opinion to this than I do. Take few minutes to think. Is this what you wanted to achieve all this time. Is this what you wanted to become all your life and what you have dreamed of. Look at where you are right now. Have you even got closer to the person who you wanted to become?
Life will leave you with a lot of unanswered questions and it will give you a reason to smile, as well as a reason to cry. The success to life will always depend on how you look at things and how you handle different situations. Have you ever noticed that little children show only two emotions? When they want something they cry and when they get excited about something or when they are happy, they smile; this is a pure reaction of an uncluttered mind, a mind that is not corrupted and has little capacity to react and response. But as we grow older we develop other senses and our mind tries to capture everything that we lay our eyes on. Even though we are unable to process it at any given point it will be stored in our subconscious mind and will come back to us in the form of dreams. Now you know that why some dreams have such similarity to our real life.
If we want to identify what life is we can write pages and pages, it will be endless but still we will not be able to uncover the real truth about it. The most important factor that we need to realize is that life is something that will always give us regrets and happiness. We need to control our emotions and think like a child. We need to have an uncluttered mind to understand life and to deal with life. Always look at the positives that arise from a situation and keep smiling. Remember it’s something that you can give free of charge. Never regret over things that you have not achieved but always have faith in yourself to achieve bigger and better things. I will leave you with a saying that I always believed in “Do what you love and love what you do” and life will simply be a heaven.
People sometimes try to achieve something greater and some try to survive. I always tried to understand why we do this to ourselves and I never found an answer to that query. It is quite strange that for some people this is not even a question but for others like me it’s always a problem. I always wanted to find this truth and find answers why we suffer so much in life to achieve something that is far beyond us. Then again you sometimes believe that this is what helps you to live. You may have a different opinion to this than I do. Take few minutes to think. Is this what you wanted to achieve all this time. Is this what you wanted to become all your life and what you have dreamed of. Look at where you are right now. Have you even got closer to the person who you wanted to become?
Life will leave you with a lot of unanswered questions and it will give you a reason to smile, as well as a reason to cry. The success to life will always depend on how you look at things and how you handle different situations. Have you ever noticed that little children show only two emotions? When they want something they cry and when they get excited about something or when they are happy, they smile; this is a pure reaction of an uncluttered mind, a mind that is not corrupted and has little capacity to react and response. But as we grow older we develop other senses and our mind tries to capture everything that we lay our eyes on. Even though we are unable to process it at any given point it will be stored in our subconscious mind and will come back to us in the form of dreams. Now you know that why some dreams have such similarity to our real life.
If we want to identify what life is we can write pages and pages, it will be endless but still we will not be able to uncover the real truth about it. The most important factor that we need to realize is that life is something that will always give us regrets and happiness. We need to control our emotions and think like a child. We need to have an uncluttered mind to understand life and to deal with life. Always look at the positives that arise from a situation and keep smiling. Remember it’s something that you can give free of charge. Never regret over things that you have not achieved but always have faith in yourself to achieve bigger and better things. I will leave you with a saying that I always believed in “Do what you love and love what you do” and life will simply be a heaven.
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