Education – the Science of Life

Education – the Science of Life

1986 12 December 19 Education – the Science of Life (328) Education is not by any means just an employment certificate. The real purpose it is meant to serve is to bring consciousness to individuals. Education is the first step towards the construction of a nation. Whenever the journey of a nation begins, it will certainly be from here; there is no other point from which to start.

What does making people conscious mean? it means enabling people to link the past and the present, to draw proper conclusions, to be able to put life’s issues in the context of eternal planning. They must learn to judge their weaknesses as well as their strengths. They must learn to know how to make their will correspond to the will of God, this being the only way they can ever hope to achieve success in this world of God. Only a man of understanding is fit to be called man, in the real sense of the word. Such a man alone is able to judge himself and others properly, by arriving at proper conclusions. It is only after learning which of his opinions are objective and which are not, that he is able to recognize which of his actions were simply negative reactions and which were actually positive actions. He can then separate the evil from the good and the false from the true. All of us possess eyes, but it is education which gives man the intellectual eye, the eye of discernment. Common eyes enable one to see only appearances; education makes it possible for one to go deeper into the realities of life.

Just as a farmer grows a seed into a tree, so do educational institutions help in ones’ intellectual journey to fruition. Education does of course, help one to get a job, but that is a matter of secondary importance. The real virtue of education is that it reveals to man the science of life thus making him a man in the real sense of the word.