“Education provides sense; it reforms people; it opens the doors of the minds to think positively; it teaches us ethics, morality and honesty. It guides us as to how to deal with each other in the best way”.
By quoting these statements, people stress the importance of education. These claims have also been made a maxim considering which one feels bound to get educated. Accordingly, it is assumed that by joining educational institutions, students will get all the above-mentioned benefits of education.
If all this is true, are all the students getting free from their schools, colleges and universities enriched with the qualities namely sensibility, ethics, morality, positive thinking and honesty? Considering the large number of students successfully coming out of these institutions, should our society not be improved as far as the ethics, morality, sensibility and honesty are concerned?
Unfortunately, when we have a profound look at our society, we feel sorry to see the rapidly increasing evils around us. These evils not only include the crimes such as corruption, robberies, valuable snatching, extortion, rape and murders, but they also comprise enmity, jealousy, hatred, egotism and bias for each other. In cannot be claimed at all that only the uneducated people are involved in them. There is no discrimination here at all.
The way we behave with each other whether individually or collectively, socially or politically, cult-wise or religiously, shows the big deviation from the gist of the education we are supposed to have got after being educated. The question is, why has the expanding education altogether failed to offset these evils from society?
Decades ago, there was a time when there used to be a very small number of people getting free from educational institutions; there was the time when the graduates could be counted perhaps, on fingers. There were not as many Masters and Phd`s in the past that we have now, yet their society did not have so many evils that we have today. Why was their society morally better than ours despite having many times lower literacy rate?
Not speaking of the tremendous increase in the number of schools, colleges, universities and the professional institutes of the “worldly” education, even thousands of Madarsas have also been set up all over the country in order to reform people with teachings of Islam. Even then it seems as if we are lacking in sensibility, honesty, respect, ethics and morality in our society. This shows that there is definitely something important which is missing in our education. When this is the ground reality, should we be content just on the increase of degree holders without getting the gist from the pertinent knowledge?
Concisely, we should keep promoting the education in our society with heart and soul. But, providing people the education without the resulted indispensable sense or wisdom for reforming themselves, we cannot be in a position to remove the prevailing evils from our society. In fact, education is only a means, a method, a guide line to the right way to go on, but if the people do not have the feelings, the sense; the wisdom to accept and follow it, then how can education be of any value to them except an assistance to earn money?
Therefore, our educationists and the intellectuals will have to think over it so that we can get all that from education for which it is emphasized all over the world. Otherwise, there would be no use of education and its certification (degrees), and we will keep facing remarks such as:
“Education did not affect us at all”, “People have got the degrees, but not the sense” and “Books do not make donkeys educated”.
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