Love and Dreams in Education

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.