The purpose of education & questions
What is the function of education? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Seriously.. because it is a very important question to ask yourself.
What are you being educated for? Is it merely to have you enroll in classes, memorize some ideas, take some examinations, pass some tests, in order to: get a job to provide for your own living or family, make money to buy things (a house, car, television..). What is the end result of all the classes you are taking, all the education you have had? What is it preparing you for?
Read these questions slowly and think about them. I've been reading this book by this Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti (who by the way, was recommended to me by a gay barber) who opens up a lot of good questions like these. But I think this question in particular is essential.
Is the function of education simply to fit you into society? Are you being educated in order to persue things that you think you are supposed to persue because society (your parents, television, minister, teacher, friend) says you are to. For instance, you know your supposed to get married right? You are supposed to get a house, have kids, raise them, put them in school, then teach them to do the same. You may think you really want to. But have you thought about that? Why do you want to persue those things? To have happiness? Is happiness a thing you can chase? Will that even bring you happiness.
All great questions! Just think about them for YOURSELF.. The worst thing you can do is simply accept at face value what others have dictated for you. Question everything. Seek to understand. Don't accept that the sky is blue because people have told you it is. See for yourself. Question WHY is it blue. Don't accept that u think there is a soul because someone else told you there was or you read it in some book. But think about it. Do you think there is something inside you that lives on beyond you when you pass away. Can you touch it, communicate with it? Is it even real? Or did you hear it from something else and believe it?
That's a lot of questions for today. But just think about these things.
What are you being educated for? Is it merely to have you enroll in classes, memorize some ideas, take some examinations, pass some tests, in order to: get a job to provide for your own living or family, make money to buy things (a house, car, television..). What is the end result of all the classes you are taking, all the education you have had? What is it preparing you for?
Read these questions slowly and think about them. I've been reading this book by this Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti (who by the way, was recommended to me by a gay barber) who opens up a lot of good questions like these. But I think this question in particular is essential.
Is the function of education simply to fit you into society? Are you being educated in order to persue things that you think you are supposed to persue because society (your parents, television, minister, teacher, friend) says you are to. For instance, you know your supposed to get married right? You are supposed to get a house, have kids, raise them, put them in school, then teach them to do the same. You may think you really want to. But have you thought about that? Why do you want to persue those things? To have happiness? Is happiness a thing you can chase? Will that even bring you happiness.
All great questions! Just think about them for YOURSELF.. The worst thing you can do is simply accept at face value what others have dictated for you. Question everything. Seek to understand. Don't accept that the sky is blue because people have told you it is. See for yourself. Question WHY is it blue. Don't accept that u think there is a soul because someone else told you there was or you read it in some book. But think about it. Do you think there is something inside you that lives on beyond you when you pass away. Can you touch it, communicate with it? Is it even real? Or did you hear it from something else and believe it?
That's a lot of questions for today. But just think about these things.
