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Guiding the Youth
The youth are more alive than us,
more idealistic than us and more inspired than us. If the world was guided by
the young, the world would be a better place to live. Because they are in a
certain level of high-energy compared to the other part of the humanity, it is
just that every little thing that they do is slightly exaggerated. If something
constructive has to happen in the world, it has to be by the youth. If
something destructive has to happen in the world, it too has to be by the youth.
Actually, it would be wonderful if
this world were guided by little children because they’re closer to life than
anybody else. After all, everything we wish to do is for human well-being.
Human well-being means human happiness. If we look at our children and ourselves,
our children are definitely a lot happier than we are. This being the case,
children should be consultants on life and not us oldies. We are carried away
by our thoughts and emotions; they’re much closer to life. If only the world
learned from children rather than trying to teach children, the world would be
a beautiful place.
A teacher is not the best means of
transmission when it comes to pure information. A book is better, the internet
is even better. Only if the teacher’s role is to inspire people to learn and to
create a thirst for knowledge, only then a teacher’s role has something to
give. If he’s just trying to transmit information, the other means of
transmission are better than a human being because a human being can always
misinterpret. Making the whole education system purely informational has caused
enormous damage. The time of life when we’re youthful, when we’re capable of
many things, unfortunately goes waste simply because the necessary inspiration
is not there.
It’s like nurturing a plant, if we
want it to bear fruit, we have to nurture it every day, we have to water it
every day, and we have to take care of it every day. If this dedication is
shown by adults, the youth will do miraculous things. Only because such dedication
is missing in the general population, the youth seem to be disoriented - they
don’t know what to do and they are doing their own things. Because everybody is
working on short-term goals, the youth also work on short-term goals.
One big thing that needs to happen
with the youth and with everybody is that their identification with humanity
should not be limited to just themselves, it should include a larger society
and a larger world around them. Unfortunately, this is missing in education.
Modern education is constantly training people to only think about themselves
and nothing but themselves. The whole process of science is only about how to
use everything for our comfort and well-being. Initially, we use the planet,
then the trees and plants, then the animals, then of course the human beings
also. We exploit everybody to our benefit and comfort. This attitude has been
deeply set with the process of modern education.
As we are investing our time,
resources and energies in transmitting informative knowledge, we have to invest
a certain amount of time, energy and resources to inspire the youth. If this
happens then the world would become a truly beautiful place.
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