Misconceptions about Education

School is where we spend our time from childhood to adulthood and almost 5% of our life is consumed. Huge number of people concretely assure their life to become more successful if they have undergone learning inside the school. So they unobviously agree that school is a crucial institution ever invented by humans.

I would not wish for anything about returning back the time for disengaging myself in school. In fact, I am glad I met friends inside the school whose influences to me pay much the worth of coming in and out of the premises. These influences are not just typical influences may acquire by friends inside a circle. It is good for everybody to adapt things that would surely change views and opinions, and that what was happened to me.

For so many years, people are seriously sending their sons and daughter in schools (public/private) equipped with the anticipation of their successful schooling at the end of the school year. How lucky are those who receive lots of merits in gold, silver, and bronze with special awards depicted by additional medals made of metals. School is really a place where we encounter different opinions. Some of them may do not accord to what you know. Although my notions are surely not the same with you, I must disperse them even if they kill many of the students’ enthusiasm (just if so).

Education is usually incorporated with school and is commonly tied with being able to surmount the years-long schooling, it is to graduate. Education is to finish course with title, a description which is the stereotypical knowledge of everybody about education. Educating means imparting (or providing) knowledge (Encarta Dictionaries, 2009), education therefore means the acquired knowledge or simply the knowledge you earned from studying enumerable lessons given by the professors. Now if your name was unfortunately not included in the “List of Graduates,” does it mean you did not obtain knowledge, does it mean you do not have the education despite of knowing that you have gained better understanding? Of course not, isn’t it? But why is it many are longing to march during the graduation ceremony? Because of several reasons. First, because many of us do not know the real meaning of education. Second, many are obsessed with the feeling of procuring degree. Third, they want the popularity. Fourth, actually…there were just two reasons: the First and Second.

Spending 5% of your life is a very long time, it is equal to 17 to 20 years or even longer. Imagine the 2 decades of burning mid-night oil, enduring pressures brought by the usual upcoming mid-term and final exams in major subjects plus the tensions imparted by the minor subjects, the fright we felt every time we meet a terror lecturer, the sudden late announcements of terrifying scheduled exams and requirements’ due dates, yet many withstand these hardships only for acquiring degree-attesting-papers. What possibly be the reason why many are obsessed in grasping these documents? Could it be the PPP or Prestige, Power, and Popularity? 

The fourth paragraph of this article tells you that education is about gaining understanding to comprehend what reigns the earth. It is about knowing things. It is about obtaining better knowledge in dealing with the society. It is about knowing agreeable from disagreeable substances. It is about having wise explanations regarding everything. Education then does not directly point to completing a certain course in a tertiary level. Recognition, plaques, credentials, medals, or anything do not fully define your education, because education chiefly and emphatically pertains to your gained knowledge and not to your gained degree. It may sound strange to you but the essence of this thing can be explained logically. Putting too much and deep description about education may complicate your life thereafter. It is quite important to seek the true meaning of education to keep ourselves away from cowardice as the consequence of misconception.

What if you stopped going to school, or you did not graduate, how your life would go? Practically speaking, we need to have better “acquired knowledge” in order to get hired in a company if ever we apply. Since they only hire applicants completed certain course, for sure your application appointment be eventually dismissed instantly. I am telling you, many prefer to comply nowadays with worldly qualifications. It actually render us the denotation that many were simultaneously captured by the orders of these unobvious controllers of human life. I featured this perception in my blog entitled Human Government: Keeps Human Life Tougher, please check that out to read the entire blog.

How do you often think or do similarly the things revealed by this blog?  Education does so much in human life, either it lessens or graves men daily living. Aggregating all the proofs, education that exists alongside with worldly deeds makes life unstable and full of uncertainties. It is mind-puzzling how to fix the prevalent incorrect belief of mankind through written ones, this is just a mere blog to others.

I constructed this blog because that is how I perceive the world as implied by the title of this blog site. The notions you read in this blog are perceptions of the content contributor. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below and I am willing to answer you back (if I have free time).

Biblical or Unbiblical?

Whether we like it or not, we are here on Earth to give glory to God, to study and preach His words using the bible and worship Him. What dominates these days is materialism. We must be very careful in distinguishing what is our need from unnecessary ones.

(a.) Standard Living

When the knowledge of men boomed, many of its consequences drove men away from living that complies with the ideal living the bible is endorsing. Today, many aspire to become rich but did not the bible tell us that rich men would have hard time in entering God’s kingdom? Therefore, aspiring to become a rich one does not comply with the standards set the bible for those who will going to inherit God’s kingdom. Material richness is given to mankind solely by the Earth but Jesus clearly uttered to us that we must depart from all the things that belong to the Earth. These words are the words do not want to hear by people who are engaged with the Earthly systems prevalent today. The original standards of living set by the bible is manipulated and changed by the people with unreasonable words. Once I believed this quote: If you were born poor, that is not your fault. But if you died being poor, that is your fault. This quote is straightforwardly opposing the words cited formerly. The times I do not yet know the truths stated in the bible, I always keep that very seriously in my life. But when a friend approached me and told me everything about the bible, it was the time when I started changing my views about life. That quote is invented by mere human who is obviously drifted by the materialism of the world because that motto propels us to think about accumulating money with great amount. If a person does not know the bible, he would take it as an inspiration. He would even believe that we must really become rich or enthusiastically struggle to become rich for the reason that it is our fault if we died poor. But again, Jesus the Messiah tells us that poor people will be blessed at the end. So would you believe to Jesus that being poor is not the thing that would keep you unblessed at the end? Or you would believe to that saying created by man with the influence of materialism? This gives us the concrete context that people had set another standards of living and disregarded what the bible is stating. That motto sarcastically accuses people (who are behind the entire society) the ones who did not persevere during their childhood. If you then valued that quote then you too are throwing accusations against them. Did you know that every time Jesus talks about poor people, He sees them luckier than rich men? But they are contradictorily evaluated by the said motto. Very opposing!

(b). Worshipping God

I can hardly ponder that millions of people scattered around the globe use figurines like Sto. Ñinos, statue of Mary, Jesus nailed on the literal cross, figures of saints, and many more. Most of the Christian claimants use these kind of religious paraphernalia throughout their life. They are used to kneel toward these items, asking guidance, and shortly pray. Believers believe to the power of their priests’ holy water sprinkled on the items. After presenting them to a certain priest, owners highly gain confidence that those items were really a “blessing” from God through the words spoken by the presiding man. I am sorry for being redundant guys about this issue. The bible does not tell humans about this “holy water.” You cannot find anywhere in the bible saying ‘a water which is holy.’ Another thing, priests know that using images or figurines in worshipping God is not biblical. Okay, you can read the story about Moses’ followers worshipping an idol but not because you can find it there (in the bible) then you are going to practice it. No! God hates people who use figurines in worshipping Him. God does not like idol to be worshipped by men (Exodus 20.4).

Q: But how come these millions of people do this ungodly thing? Putting too much devotion to man-made crafted figurines?

The answer is very simple. They do this against-God practice because they do not know what is inside the bible, they do not read bible. They imitate what their leaders are doing.

Q: Does that mean their leaders also do ungodly practice?

Precisely yes! Religious leaders that do not accord with the real bible teachings are called false prophets, the bible itself is telling us about these false prophets. Figurine users are happily presenting publicly their known devotion incorporated by their items unaware of the truths about true worship. It is important to read and study the bible because bible is our manual in operating our life. God gave us this book (the bible) to making out life more functional. As what I have told you in the opening paragraph of this article: We are here on Earth to give glory to God (this is our real purpose why we live on this planet) and not to do what we wanted to. Everything we do other than studying/preaching His words and worshipping Him is not what He envisions.

Human Government:Keeps Human Life Tougher

I accidentally heard this question from an unknown person, “what if there is no government that leads us and tells us what to do, to do these and those?” And the one he is talking with commented, “That is impossible. If there is no government, there will no peace and order in the land.” It is stereo-typically supposed as a logical explanation that to be able to achieve peaceful community, there should be officials that would officiate the entire group of people. These officials will entail the power of human laws that individuals should obey. They then dependent to laws that men created in maintaining neutral P&O of the community. Therefore government officials use laws to manipulate the human activity within their jurisdiction. Do you see the point? Human government complicates all human hardships and sufferings.

      We live in a world where qualifications are needed in order to accord with the rules, regulations, guidelines, and laws. How? Before having good life, you must undergo stages that steal your time, prolong your success, and consume almost a third of your life. Why? Because that is the qualification of the human government.Is that the life we are longing to attain? Could not we grab easily a good life that do not undertake difficulties? Human government forces its people to comply with the orders of their earthly systems. Some will philosophize, “you must endure first the adversities before stepping into the door of victory.” Do you believe in that? I do not think that way. Government, operated by humans imposing so many guidelines, is the cause why we live our life seemingly impossible to improve.

      Rules, Regulations, Guidelines, and Laws though explained differently, they are agreeing in one the same sentence: to preserve the image of a certain “body.” What is funny there is that human government does not just keep human life tougher, it also support the fact that human governments increase crimes. I love to put some questions here so again, how crimes are emanated by these governments? Because of too much imposing RRGLs, many of the people are unfortunately disregarded by the society particularly in job application. A company sets qualifications like: must be a graduate of any 4-year course, must have a degree of blah, must be proficient in blah, knows how to speak blah, and many more citations about what they need for an applicant. Well how about those who do not have these qualifications? Their resumes end up in a garbage bin and ignored. No source of income leads to poverty. It is hard to apply for a job, is not it? Opportunities are mushrooming yet few are hired.How it became? Because of the laziness to search for a job and idleness to apply? No. It is due to the earthly system they do implement. The result of unemployed persons is the massive increase of criminalities. We often hear from a caught criminal this reason: I have done that because of the poverty. Another opposition goes like this: If you have studied well your lessons during your schooling, you would not face poverty. Sounds reasonable to those who do not know the very detail of human government.

      Extracting all the ingredients of survival will help you understand why many experience poverty. What we usually do is looking on the shallow reasons and explaining our point to them, which is I call a hazy viewpoint. We can even pay close and talk about Satan who is said to be the root of all evil. But you cannot say in the authority, “because Satan forced me to do that, and I am not entitled with this crime. Please free me.” Do you think they will free you? No, because what they follow is there law, probably the incarceration when someone violated the human law to foster human government. Government officials think they can create a nation of literally peaceful and organize citizens via instilling their laws. Falsehood! There are sets of hundred human government RRGLs, and as a result, some of them contradict other one. Amazing or disgusting?