A Boon disguised as a Bane

There are a lot of things one can learn and implement through education. We, humans wouldn't even be talking if not for education. We need to be taught to do better. Every child needs to be educated at least until the age of fourteen in India. For this to become a law, it took many lives and their steadfast struggles but do we appreciate it? Not really, we use it in today's world as a weapon. So, how does education help one's life where experience fails?
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Consider a couple living in a societal boarding house of some sort and apparently, their house is situated at the center of a three road intersection. Every day, they sweep their veranda at least thrice scooping up dead leaves settling on their porch collected from all three sides by the direction of the wind; it is accepted by them that this occurs due to the geographical placement of the property paired with everyday weather. Along comes an old lady who sells spinach door-to-door and she says, "It's better if you changed the house. The omens are not good. You keep sweeping and yet the leaves keep falling on your veranda." Thus, here we have a classic example of how education plays a crucial role in the perception of life struggles. The ability to distinguish a random scientific event from the supernatural comes only when one educates themselves.

Now that the importance had been stressed enough, let's see about the quality of education:

The primary purpose of educating oneself is to make one's life easier. But, from times immemorial the concept of hard work and tough syllabus had been ingrained into the schematics of an education curriculum. Is it really supposed to be this hard? We tend to understand only those subjects that pique our interests or which we practically implement or are useful to our life as a wage earner or  for purposes of smooth functionality. This is why certain students who excel at Biology flunk in Mathematics; those better in Science flunk in the language subjects; those better at sports flunk in academics in general. Although this is not the rule, the cases indeed hold a majority. Despite this wide acknowledged truths, no one is ready to bring about a change in the system of education, at least not in a revolutionary way.

How can an individual make his mental backup access only those facts or snippets that are relevant to self without having to feed all the rest of the attached cache files? A conversation between Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson comes to mind. The famous detective Mr. Holmes doesn't remember whether it is the sun that revolves around the earth or the other way round, yet there is none as exceptional as him in deducing and detecting. He believed for a private investigator, the matters of astrophysics are irrelevant even to the basic detail.

Mr. Holmes had this ability to compartmentalize every detail he perceives in a fictional library inside his mind where every day is a book. He could simply choose to recollect the events of a particular day by just accessing the relevant book. This type of storing memory is very powerful and it takes a lot of practice. So, in the course of education make sure to remember only that which you understand thoroughly. Don't exert your brain to by-heart those which you don't understand, or at least store those only in the short-term so it deletes itself once the task of scoring marks is completed.
Every individual is wired uniquely and everyone requires a varying range of concepts and theories to understand to evolve better. Freedom for education isn't the end goal here. Freedom in choice of education is the ultimate destination. To achieve it, the ability of each individual must be brought forth and groomed respectively. Until then, let's groom our mind the Sherlock way.



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