The point of being "Educated"

At least once, you must have met someone in your life who seems to know almost everything.......... The purpose of education is to avoid building such personalities. "To know everything" ain't the point here.......

From a social and economic viewpoint, the western world has adopted an industry driven approach. The sole purpose of education seems to produce good scientists and engineers. In this aspect, the west has succeeded at least in producing good professionals who help industry in generating revenues. The same cannot be said for most of the eastern societies. The whole agenda here seems to produce money making machines. If these machines end up being good scientists and researchers, very well then! ...... otherwise the societies pretty much do not care! Since money is THE ONLY thing that matters here, some societies have even adopted this notion of turning up whole education sector as a profit making industry.

Let's talk about some of the psychological perspective......... This is where the whole human race is simply wrong! For a healthy mind, education should end up rectifying the rational thoughts of a person. It should help a person in developing his/her ethical sense. It is only after having a better 'rational' and 'moral' sense will I be able to build up my personality.

Humans are following an apposite approach here. Education has given us intelligence, and we are using  it as a tool to justify our mistakes, rather than rectifying them. Going back to the start, where I

mentioned this personality who seems to have a reason for everything...... this is what modern education  has ended up producing....... A person who is always looking for reasons to support his unethical behavior, who is trying to justify his emotions through any possible means.

The point of education remains the same that our forefathers used to tell us...... that is to help build up our consciousness. I remember when I was a teenager, my father used to force me and my brother to watch a TV show which discusses knowledge and beliefs. Frankly speaking, I hated it in the start........ after all, who in his teenage would like to listen to reason! Funny thing's that.... as time passed, my father lost his interest in the show whereas I started enjoying it!

The last paragraph has nothing to do with the scope of this article....... I'm just trying to give you guys a parenting lesson :)

Lets get back to some serious stuff, shall we! In summary, you should look deep into your heart and ask yourself this critical question "Am I intentionally looking for reason" or "is reason genuinely guiding my decisions". If not the latter, then I'm afraid you're using your own intelligence to destroy your consciousness. Your education has ended up destroying your morality! The correct approach will be to let your consciousness be the guiding force for your intelligence.