What is the purpose of education?

Its understandable that people had long forgotten this. People are busy preparing places for students, pay for teachers, while keeping in mind to keep the students quiet:
not to produce any noise to disturb the peace of everything.

Education is subordinate to a wider quest of the whole people. If every one is thinking of pleasure seeking, then the purpose of education should be same.

To ask the purpose of education, is to ask the purpose of life.

Can any one in the higher places tell me about that?

May be we need a little more of the thing in our pocket: wisdom.

Yes, the purpose of education is to gain more wisdom. And that needed wisdom too. You need to have more wisdom to know that you are in need of wisdom. The more you know, the more you feel the urgency to gain more wisdom.

Wisdom is somewhat different from knowledge.

Wisdom is the power to control knowledge. Without widsom, knowledge is a gun in the hands of a monkey.

And how do we gain more wisdom?

Wisdom is perception.

To perceive only self interest, or so-called core interest of the country, is one kind of wisdom.

To perceive a wider sense of interest, or to think in terms of the whole mankind, is another form of wisdom.

And that could be named love, too.

What is the purpose of education?

The possible answer should be: Wisdom and Love.



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