Education and Literacy

                                                   

Education is supposed to create unbiased society whose standards should not be based on cast, creed, religion, region and other unintentional inherited social doctrine. Education produces a great nation, social values, industries, moral science and provides vision to life. In an educated society, people must get their right with ease and must not face any hurdle getting their work done. It might be getting passport, ration card, government services and so on. However why we face problems to get even basic rights?  Indian government data shows that nearly 75% of population is educated in India. For India it is good number to make system better and corrupt less.  Highly educated politicians, bureaucrats, doctors, engineers, financial experts and all other persons (so called educated) are responsible for poor administration, order and law, healthcare and so on.

However, if a doctor is educated then how come he/she can allow gender inquiry before baby’s birth? If an IAS is educated then how he/she can pass a tender of construction to one, who offers bribe? If a politician is educated then how he/she can ask for vote based on cast and religion? If private company’s employees are educated then how come they produce fake bills for reimbursements and tax exemption?  We can cite many more like this, but the question is, are they really educated, if they are, then there is something terribly wrong with our education system. Our knowledge system does not educate people, but make them skilled in particular field, which make them literate in that area (even basic definition of literate is the one how can read and write language). It means someone is literate in particular area i.e. doctor knows how to cure the disease, administrators know how to govern a district, politicians know how to rule (serve) and so on. These are their job and they must be expert in these fields, however we should not tag them as educated but literate in their respective field.

Aim of education is to raise the standard of life, not living standard. Literacy must include moral values, honesty, unbiased decisions, and integrity to be education. A literate man can achieve all needs of his life but cannot add value to create a corrupt less and healthy system. Tomorrow our nation’s literacy rate might be more than 90%; however we will be able to fail to produce unbiased system until we get educated people.

But now the question is what kind of persons can be educated, how a person should be educated? A conditioned mind cannot be educated. What is conditioning, and how can we get rid of this? When one is born, one starts getting conditioned of one’s civilization which includes culture, religion, region, nation, social belief, customs, traditions, rituals, etc. after some time span these social conditionings become so deep rooted in our mind that we start behaving in same manner as we have been brought up. Even we do not realize and we become slave of these conditionings and cannot separate our self from this to see the actuality. If we were born in some other nation, state, cast, religion then we would have been believe and practicing something different instead of our own. Therefore conditioning of mind is not the reality and lead to incoherent society. To make our mind unconditioned we must relinquish all unintentional inherited conditioning from society. More you are unconditioned the more you are educated.