Mind-work of the Most Fallen # 4

On Education

It is said that it is better to live like an animal than to teach nescience. For so-called teachers of this sort are described like snakes with jewels on top of their heads. They are a more efficient killer than the ordinary snake--for they are attractive.

Recently, people were subjected to unnecessary anxiety when a group of scientists inaugurated the operation of an expensive machine system called Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons or lead, at very high speeds. The ultimate goal of the said machine is for the study of a certain hyphotetical particle called the Higgs boson. 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories, participated in this experiment which cost billions of dollars. Is this the goal of education?

The goal of real education should be the eradication of the four sufferings in the material realm: birth, old age, disease, and death. Also, the attainment of true happiness. If someone can provide this, then he or she is eligible to teach.

What do you want to be?
During my time, we would unanimously answer "Doctor." And when asked why, we would say, "because we want to cure the sick, we want to help people..." so on and so forth. And parents would be proud, relatives would be proud, friends would be proud, for the future doctor. During my time, doctors were the big earners. They were also the big spenders: big house, fine clothes, grand piano, swimming pool, car etc. So, we all wanted to be doctors, but hospital life never crossed our minds...we were doctors in our mansion and red sports car. This is what is being taught in most of our schools. Graduate and be someone; be someone then spend a lot of money. But then doctors aren't necessarily happy. Being a doctor doesn't guarantee happiness, neither does living in a mansion or driving a sports car give us endless bliss. So this education fails, and as it teaches us false happiness, this is the education of nescience.

But it doesn't mean that because our so-called education failed to provide us happiness, that true happiness does not exist. It does exist in several symptoms, one of which is the transcendence of the four material suffering (birth, old age, disease and death). Transcending these material miseries, will quench our anxieties for our selves and our loved ones. When this anxieties are gone we will have peace...and then happiness.