As much as I try to write as often as possible, multi-tasking overwhelms me! The past two months have been extremely busy as I have been working on two very important essays. I am studying an Education-related Master’s course, which made it an enjoyable experience for me to research a topic so relevant to my daily struggles of comprehending the nature of the world we live in. Some might wonder how Education is related to our Society, but I have come to understand and firmly believe that Society becomes the Education it receives. As my Professor puts it, Education and Social Sciences are interconnected in a way that makes it easy to view them as two separate entities but very easy to ignore their interrelation. We tend to see them as separate when we consider the purpose of Education to be ‘transactional’ – get educated to get a job. Here, you are not directly contributing to the development of society but only the economy, often forgetting that the economic aspect is merely a measure of what those in society do. How good is the quality of their lives? No one cares. This is where the ‘easy-way-out path’ we have been opting to walk on for a long time now comes to the rescue – Ignorance! It does not exist if I can’t see it or it isn’t happening to me. Hence, viewing Education as a fundamental key to changing mindsets for the betterment of society is a connection difficult to make.
Hegemonic competition has led countries to compete against each other based on standardized test scores. Does it matter to anyone if a high-performing student is coping with several psychological illnesses due to family issues? Or if a low-performing student is so sick of disappointing his family and himself that living in denial for the rest of his life is his only option? Denial of his will, potential, and purpose of existence.
I agree that hardships make life worth living and help us grow, overcome challenges, and make us stronger, along with all those other one-lined meme quotes Facebook makes us believe in. But at what cost?
As you might have noticed, these essays have ignited a lot of passion in me. I want to let this fire charge my writing for the upcoming posts, which are not travel-related, but bear with me and let me take you on a journey of fixing our little world that exists in this vast universe consisting of billions of stars.
fortuitouspurpose 