THE SO-CALLED education
ANY FOOL CAN KNOW, THE POINT IS TO UNDERSTAND - ALBERT EINSTEIN Whenever there is a question. “What is education?” there came a universal answer, that it is a process of acquisition of knowledge. Then there comes another question “what is knowledge?” and it is nothing but understanding something. So, in a nutshell education and knowledge are the same side of a coin. But is it? We would have come across this situation where people used to ask us what is your ambition? some of us would have quoted to be an engineer and some to be a doctor but have we ever said “I want to become a knowledgeable person? “ THE CHAIN Our modern society has monetized everything, in which knowledge is not an exception. The commercialized concept of knowledge is what we call education and these educational institutions are privatized training centers cum marketing agencies, where students are its customers. The only goal of these institutions is...