What is an education and what is learning? Aren’t they one? Though both seemed to be one, if read between the lines, it will become clear that both are different! What we are taught in the school is learning; what knowledge we gain outside text books is education! Like knowing things through Internet, TV, Radio, Chatting, Hearing, Seeing practically, etc can be classified as education.
That’s what Mark Twain’s great saying highlights. Schooling here refers to learning! Education underlines knowledge gained otherwise. Didn’t they say that travel broadens the mind?
By traveling to different places we see and hear about people and their culture and so on. Hence it is called as exploring! There are several magazines and a few TV channels about travel.
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Subjects to learn are aplenty. Educative, entertaining, humor, history, biographies, activities, arts, culture, drawing, computer, medicine, GK, business, and so on. Some of these do not come under school curriculum. Like wise, there is not a single subject that a book skipped. So reading is sure to enhance abundant knowledge.
Similarly, sharing knowledge with the elders also serve one to a greater extent. The different problems faced by them, how they had tackled them, are another way of education. Hence it is said that ‘Life is a classroom we never graduate from!’
Some magazines run a special column too, inviting contributions from readers about how they were doped or how they had successfully managed a tricky situation. Reading them creates awareness and acts as an eye opener to us.
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Schooling is more important. It is the foundation for our growth. There is no second opinion about it. However, mere schooling is not sufficed! The more one learns, the more he/she is respected wherever he/ she go.
To cite an example, Swami Vivekananda’s speech at Chicago in USA, fetched name and fame not only to him, but to all of us and the entire nation too.
These two, education and learning, are like two railway lines over which our train of life travels. If one is not straight, it will end in disaster, toppling us. So, both are important. It is like inhaling and exhaling of breath that keeps us alive.
While we give ourselves good education, let us also learn all that there is to learn and become genius.