What is education?
Although many of us think that education means taking admission in schools, colleges, universities, medical colleges, engineering colleges and in various coaching centres with the ultimate purpose of getting a job with a lucrative pay package, in actuality, education means to acquire knowledge encompassing various aspects which ultimately helps in broadening our mental horizon.
Further, education also helps a person to co-relate various issues in an effortless manner. For example, while talking about Keshto Mukherjee, we must know that in real life, he was a teetotaler and at least in one film, he played a normal (albeit minor) role. Has anyone seen him in 'Padosan' film? Did he play the role of a drunkard in that film? From this topic, a real educated person must be able to give a lecture on different types of comedies and also about silent movies of Charlie Chaplin (without consulting Google-uncle). Education doesn't mean to avoid discussing Keshto Mukherjee.
Similarly, wine industry churns out lakhs of crores of dollars and euros every year. This industry gives the governments all over the world thousands of crores of dollars as tax. During the coronavirus period, this industry sustained the economy of many countries and states. Under such circumstances, every educated person must know the differences between wine, whiskey, or rum. They must be able to understand the difference and taste between single-malt and double-malt whiskey. Educated persons should also have at least preliminary knowledge of differences between Taadhi, Bangla, Dheno, Chullu or Tongba (all are desi liquors of West Bengal). If they don't have this knowledge, they must have the curiosity to acquire this knowledge.
I mean to say we must not confine education only to get admission in educational institutions and prepare for getting a job. We must use education to broaden our minds.
Thank you.
(a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
(b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali
