“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education as learning stemmed from our natural curiosity and desire to know the world around us.
Acquiring knowledge will never be out-of-fashion because it is the very essence of education, and “a good unto itself.”
However, sadly enough, today’s schools are driven by curriculum serving other purposes, mistaking rigour for vigour, killing curiosity and creativity, and robbing kids off the enjoyment that learning can provide.
In fact, what has gotten in the way of education in India or at most places around the world is a theory of social engineering that says there is just ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.
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