By Kritika (1970)
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At the end of World War II, a letter was found in a Nazi concentration camp, wherein a survivor said to the teachers, “I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness: Gas chambers built by learned engineers, children poisoned by educated physicians, infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and burnt by High School and College Graduates. So, I am suspicious of education. My request is: Help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled Psychopaths, educated illiterates. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve towards making our children more humane.”
Whether Russia or Ukraine is right in one’s stance or not, wars are just not right for the mankind. Indeed, Swami Vivekananda’s ways, Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Pilgrimage to Non-violence, are the most cherished ways to resolve conflicts. But these can come into play, only if the ‘human beings’ are taught to be ‘humans’. In the schools, there’s a zillion of knowledge, practicality, reasonability, but minuscule of wisdom, hence leading to evolution of more animalistic qualities than humane qualities in the students. Thus, there’s a need of revolution in the education system to help people evolve phenomenally humanely in their lives.