Elenchus – Reviving Education to Reform Society
“Education is the kindling of a flame and not filling of a vessel”- Socrates. However, the paradox here is that the flame is doused and the vessel is filled as a child completes his or her primary education. Humans are born inquisitive but a few sustain that till their graves. Rigorous training and rote learning have produced million plus literate beings but a few educated ones in the real sense and purpose of education. Multifarious permutations and combinations of circumstances and conditioning shape our views and attitudes towards life. The raison d’être of education should be to normalize the influence of conditioning and circumstances, and subject the inner sense of the individual to objectivity and critical thinking. As Dr.S. Radhakrishnan said, “The end product of education should be a free and creative man who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature.” Education should be such that it not only moulds the individual to be...