Education of Life

Education of Life

I was thinking about the current education system where we have ourselves gone through school, college, graduation and so on.

Never thought about it while I was studying - what I was studying for? Being Born in a middle class family, I was always told to be studious is good. So study hard and get a degree. It never occurred to me to ask around why to get a degree? Because answer was already given i.e. to get a job. And job obviously to make a living.

The point I missed was education of life. None of these gave me education of life.

I still remember that I was an electrical engineer and was afraid to even change a light bulb. A part of it was my fault as I never questioned the system and it's end results.

Now at the age of 35, I realize that I would have done better if I had questioned by the mechanism. 

I now realize the real education is education of life, it is not found in current system of schools.

I personally feel that education system needs a revamp, they should teach principles of life, practical of life along with the current subjects. I am listing few things which I feel must be included -

• Training about healthy and unhealthy food habits
• Training about self discipline
• Banking and financial institutions
• History should be shown in audio visuals and should be used as inspiration rather then just knowing about it.
• Training on information technology should start at an early age.
• Way to celebrate festivals, Importance of each festival (they should be taught that plastic bags are harmful, I see huge number of plastic bags being thrown every day before and during holi).
• Planets significance in astrology and not only astronomy.
• Importance of mantras in life.
• Importance of goals in life.
• Different phases and facets of life.
• Equity and Stock market basics ;)
• Arth Tantra - Economics ;)
• Relationship building
• Spiritual Education.
• Cooking - Not only cooking but also buying good quality stuff.
• Stress management (at later stage of course).
• Time Management
• Capital Management
• Innovation

Your entire life is dependent upon the type of education you get in early stages of your life.
Our life style has come very fast paced, our education should teach us to manage and manage it well.
Well, Someday I hope I will be part of building such an institution where people do not have to study but "learn and explore".