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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. The mind should be ignited and not dumped in with knowledge.
Education is not the preparation for life; education is life itself.
It is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world.
Nowadays, children are leading a very stressful life and getting
educated in a wrong way. They are finding ways to acquire
bookish knowledge rather than understanding it. Knowledge is
gained through experience and not through bookish
knowledge. Students are studying for the sake of grades. But
they should know that grades do not define intelligence.
Bookish knowledge is materialistic and forgettable. People
should see the world with different eyes; eyes filled with
curiosity and creativity. Everyone have wings, all we have to do
is “fly”. Spread your wings across the universe, across the
mightiest wind of knowledge. Get immersed deep into the sea
of learning and you will never actually come out, because, the
beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away
from you.
You never want to get on a plane where the pilot learned to fly
from worksheets. Everyone must have practical and applicative
knowledge. Don’t try to measure how educated you are;
instead, measure how much you have travelled. If you listen,
you will forget. If you see you will remember. And if you
involve, you will understand. Not all classrooms have four walls.
In anything, find the strange thing and explore it. If you get bad
grades, don’t worry because you know how much knowledge
you have gained. Educating yourself does not mean that you
were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent
enough to know that there is a plenty left to learn. Imagination
is more important than knowledge. If you want your children to
be intelligent, read them fairly tales. If you want them to be
more intelligent, read them more fairytales.
Education can be gained only through interest. You must fight
harder for your interests rather than the rights. The biggest
mistake we make is trying to mug up everything for the sake of
good grades by using fear as the greatest motivation. Interest
can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear
explosion to a firecracker. You must learn not because you have
to, but because you want to. Kids need to be empowered and
not engaged. As the saying goes, “Education is not the learning
of facts, but the training of the mind to think”.
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