- What is Education?
- What is Educare?
- What is Culture?
What is education? It is of two types. The first type is collection of facts and knowledge about the external world, and sharing them with students. The second type is educare. Educare involves the deep understanding of the knowledge that springs from within and imparting it to students.
Both education and culture are important. Today’s education is devoid of culture and is like a counterfeit coin. Even a beggar does not accept a counterfeit coin.
Education without refinement is like a dark room. Only bats can live in dark rooms; such rooms are filthy. So, by pursuing such education devoid of culture, our hearts have become dark rooms and hence many animal qualities find their way into them.
What is culture? It is the cultivation of discrimination between good and evil, sin and merit, and truth and untruth that we experience in our daily life. It is also removal of one’s evil thoughts, feelings and qualities, and cultivation of good thoughts, feelings and qualities. Not only this, culture makes one broad-minded by getting rid of one’s narrow-mindedness.
How many books have we studied? How many subjects have I studied? How many degrees have we earned? How many languages have we studied? These are not important. Did we follow a single good habbit from our studies? Let us listen to the great story narrated to students by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba about Mansur and his strong faith on a single sentence “I am GOD”, he had learnt.
Great words of Mansur Al-Hallaj – Unself yourself!!
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