No education is the best education

The ever evolving Earth’s residents, if we count, are innumerable, when these variables react with each other, the permutations and combinations create humungous possibilities. The vastness of each variable in itself is like one Pacific Ocean. When we study biology or physics or any other subject, we are just a small canopy in that Pacific Ocean.

Well, large number of Graduates and Post graduates today are at their apex position of their career right now. But only a few are satisfied. There can be two reasons for this, because they want material gain like money and are hungry of learning something new. When a student enters the market as a fresher, he wants to become an expert. And he becomes one, only to realize that in the next step he has to learn something new and advanced. So, it is clear that learning is a continuous process. It neither ends when we complete our school nor does it ends when we pass out from the best college.

A constant companion with each one of us is ‘Life’ itself. A formal education may teach us how to make bridges but the bridge to superficial living and inner realization is built by ‘Life’. What formal education imparts us is the privilege of learning what we cannot learn in day to day life. Thus, it is very important for our growth. But history gives us umpteenth examples of achievements without any formal education.

Indus valley civilization was built by people without CAD tools. The Mughals and Guptas practiced such administrative methods that they are a subject of study today worldwide. The concept of foreign trade and trade practices can be learnt from Indian dynasties like Cholas. Legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Bill Gates, Dhirubhai Ambani have become idols for millions across the globe. They did it without any formal education. Well, many well educated have also reached the apex. M.S. Swaminathan would not have been the ‘Father of green revolution’ if after Bachelor’s degree in Zoology and then Bachelor’s degree in Science he would have stopped his quench for further learning. He further studied Agricultural Science, and post graduated in Cytogenetics and later wrote UPSC exam and got qualified for IPS. If he would have stopped there, India would not have been self-sufficient in food grains today.

When Prince Charles came to visit Mumbai’s Dabbawalas and Harvard students came to interview Lalu Prasad Yadav for he turned around the railways in India, one wonders which is the best education. The London school of business, MIT(best in engineering), Stanford, Oxford, Cornell or the IIM’s in India. We can then conclude that no education is best education, no matter how great is your teacher or degree or institute. There will always be a scope for betterment.