If education cannot teach and train students how to fall in
love, it does not serve the true purpose. Without falling in love it is nearly
impossible for students to see dreams with their eyes open, which is absolutely
imperative to bring their long cherished aspirations from the heavens of ideas
down to the world of physical reality. Therefore, if love and dreams are
missing from education, as unfortunately are in most cases, there is no point in rubbing
the brain against books throughout an academic year, listening to routine
lectures, going through the pressure games i.e. examinations, and at the end of
all this process getting a piece of paper with a student’s name
inscribed onto it which proves that he could not
become a lover or a dreamer even at the cost of his own money and time.
We know that lovers are incredible people. They achieve what
non-lovers only aspire to achieve because love, the second highest form of mind
energy and frequency (gratitude being the highest of all), is the driving force
to succeed in life. To a forceful young person in love, all sorts of target
hitting is possible because love creates determination, will power, intense
focus, persistence, perseverance and tenacity. If love is missing from
education, all these splendid qualities are mere corpses; and it is simply
impossible to win the battle of life with an army of corpses. Also, in matters
of love, we must not practise economy; we need it in abundance to influence our
futures in a positive way.
Great accomplishments of history have been made by great
lovers, not by great students who scored the highest mark in all sorts of examinations
with love missing from their academic life. Thomas Edison did not invent more
than 1000 inventions just because he wanted to cross the 1000 figure, like a
student who has to write a 1000-words-essay on a given topic. He loved to
invent that was why he did. Bill Gates is the richest man on earth not because
he wanted to prove to the world that riches can be achieved, but because he fell in love with computers from an
early age and loved what he did. Pablo Picasso did not try to prove to the
world that he had the sublime touch of brushes, wet with paints,
but he loved what he did and his sketches came
straight from his heart. Similarly, Norgay and Hillary did not become the first
people to climb Mount Everest just because they wanted to measure the height;
they loved to surmount the eternal challenge that Mount Everest had been posing
to climbers; and they loved to stand at the top of the highest peak on earth.
There are numerous examples regarding the wonders of love and an unlimited list
of the same can be created. Anyone doubting this reality can make a probe into historical facts simply to find
out that all successful individuals, whether be they scientists, engineers,
artists, philosophers, authors, or poets,
succeeded because they loved what they did. Their strong love created powerful
dreams which made them achieve what they wanted to achieve and made them known
in the world. Once a dream is created,
the destination becomes extremely vivid right in front of the eyes of a lover so
that he can step onto the ‘road of love’, especially a love that flares up like
gunpowder. That is it. Teaching students how to love and dream is the true
purpose of education.
If education does not create lovers and dreamers, it would be
the worst kind of atrocity education can inflict on the youth by murdering their
potential talents—talents that could have, otherwise, added value to the lives
of human beings in the fields of science, medicine, art, literature, politics
and so on. If our lives today are comfortable, we owe it to the lovers of the
past who loved their work to create marvels for us.
Those who design an education
system, along with teachers, are responsible to create lovers and dreamers out
of the youth who have milk instead of blood in their veins. Teachers who are in
direct contact with students do
not have to do teaching only; they have to work like architects to give the
world great scientists, artists, doctors and philanthropists by feeding the spirit
of love in their students. This is a huge responsibility. Unfortunately, in
our education systems, we do not teach children how to love and dream, with a
few exceptions at individual levels. We must know that any work without love
means unsatisfied spiritual desire in
the worker and this is the surest road to failure and the greatest waste of
all. The only possible way to fulfil this huge responsibility is to teach the
youth how always to be in love
and furthermore what to be in love with.
