“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.” – Jean Piaget
Many people have passed through the four walls of a school without being educated. Many went to school to pass exams and came out without a qualification but are still illiterate.
Statistics indicate that about 80 per cent of the population are doing jobs they hate.
Memorising the facts does not help one think. Education is the accumulation and development of thoughts and knowledge from one form or level to the next. It is the assembling of human thoughts and ideas to form a working principle.
Knowledge is the raw material with which we build our lives. If you want to have a better future, get a better knowledge, good quality knowledge. If the knowledge you have is poor or substandard – you will build with substandard raw material and your future will be substandard. Since knowledge is the raw material with which we build our lives, no product is superior to its raw material.
When you see a prosperous person, you see a person who has built their life with solid and quality raw material and when you see a poor person, you see someone who has built with substandard raw material. And all these raw materials, whether standard or substandard, are acquired throughout life.
It’s so sad that many people are messing up their lives almost every day by looking for cheap or substandard materials to build a prosperous life. They don’t want solid preparations, yet they want success. The good life must have its foundation firmly fixed on the ground, of current knowledge and proper use of time.
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