Why are we getting educated? What for? What is the real purpose of our education?
Our present day education system merely paves way to get distinction, to get a better job, to enhance the status, to claim domination and superiority over others, to accumulate wealth and to attain what is called a "prestigious" status. Most of us, even if we attain all these, still groom in shallow and emptiness. Why is that happening?
Our education system stands as the predominant reason. It does not teach us to integrate with our own Self, what is really wanted for us and what is not. Even a person who obtained doctorates, is feeling very difficult to integrate with his thoughts and emotions.
Our education system more directs a person in so called "safe lifestyle" and making him to believe that he will get all happiness and contentment only in the directed channels. It not allowing him to think beyond predetermined frontiers. A person who succumbed to the channelized compulsion of the education pattern and the so called society, decides to travel in the safe road, the road that is being traveled by millions of people. He gets numerous co-travelers whom he can befriend, compete, deceit, dominate, succumb, overtake, drag. The main idea is to gain wealth, fame, pride, supremacy, dominance, exercise influence over others and satisfy what he thinks as the "Inner Self".
Our education system does not permit him to realize that what he is trying to satisfy in not the real "Inner Self" but his own "EGO". And the truth is that "EGO" can only be satisfied temporarily and never be completely satisfied. So again after achieving one milestone, he is compelled to go for the next level. So till his death, he is always in hunt of one thing or other, and at a stage too late for him, he realizes that he has not been accomplishing the purpose of his birth.
Since right from the childhood, we are used to read books, see pictures and get knowledge only by external perceptions, most of us do not have knowledge related to internal aspects.
Why I have taken birth?
What for the one sperm won the race of the millions and create us?
Have we won such a big race only to study books, get job that enslaves us for money, marry and produce offspring, build a home for us, buy car and other goods, accumulate for our next generation and die?
Why the nature has been so kind to us to create us with an able body and an efficient brain?
If there is a stereotyped lifestyle prescribed, why the world is so big?
All plants and animals have helped the evolution process. Only few out-of-box thinkers have given the world we are living now. Then what for others have born?
If I am not useful to Earth, why is it bearing me?
I am taking air water and food to be alive only from this nature. What am I giving it back? Or we human beings are only takers?
Like this, so many questions die unanswered with the death of every person who has lived a stereotyped life prescribed by the society. If our education really encourages question and answer pattern, it should have first prompted everyone of us to find answers to these type of questions.
Whatever wealth he accumulates and whatever position he is, one never gets fulfillment unless he finds his purpose of birth and accomplishes it. So our education system has to be redefined to orient the students more inwards and guide them in the path of their true destiny.
But who is going to train the students? How many trainers available in the nation? With such a materialistic mind, people who talk about reality might be looked at as aliens.
