Self Education ≥ Formal Education

Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune-Jim Rohn,I happened to read this in today’s paper,and for a long time I’ve been thinking to write about this and today is the right time. There is always a special reserve for literate people in all walks of life, and considering the literacy rate of our country at present it is hard to point out an illiterate. Does only education makes a complete man?.Education+Character makes a complete man. the objective of the education stops at the end of the final exam, what we make out of it,is directly proportional to our intention. I’ve come across so many calm, well mannered people who haven’t had a great academic achievement, some don’t even know what academics are,and some of the arrogant person were the one with sky high academic achievements.

                                                                                It is always the character(I’d say manners) that always overtakes education, If only educated that wouldn’t takes more than what it has thought, but character with education or without education would take us anywhere we like. Sometimes we forget what we were taught, we all must have read about the traffic signals,and we very well know why,red,orange and green are on the signals,but we forget what they mean,but someone who doesn’t know why red,orange and green are chosen for signals,wouldn’t forget that he has to stop at red and only go on green.These educated people always carry this attitude that I know better than you,it is true,we know better than others,but we wouldn’t know what others know,A dentist would definitely not know what a historian would,but there is no point in offending unless someone confronts into our speciality.

                                                           Decades back or even longer than that,a person in shirt+trouser was always given an unsaid respect in our society,because only an literate person would wear that while other would be wearing dhoti(I don’t mean to say that people wearing dhoti are illiterate,those days people from village would be seen with dhoti).Now rarely people wear dhoti,but there is no point in wearing shirt and trouser if we can’t stop our vehicle for pedestrians crossing on Zebra path.What good will education do if we deny a senior citizens seat to a senior citizen  on public transport.What is the use of education when we try to get in the middle of the queue,when there are already people in a queue.How would education save us when we can read “Don’t use cellphones while driving” and not follow it.How would education earn us dignity when we don't respect the women.

                                      A formal education wouldn’t teach us everything,but it gives the power to learn everything,the purpose of education is to make everyone civilized,and how would we be civilized unless we respect others.Education is not mere learning,but applying into our life.Education is a process of learning,that has to be passed over to the next generation which would make the lives better in a better world.