The Rhetoric of the Educational Distruct – Daily Notable
Every single person ever born on this planet: Earth, travels a divine journey. The journey that instills the drive of fulfilling the specific, allocated-purpose behind birth. But how does this pertinent purpose gets unveiled? And how do the divine journeys get accomplished?
There always is an automated drive; govern by motives of achieving journeys. And motives never lead people astray. Specifying individual interests, and highlighting all random inclinations of one’s self, motives indicate persons’ capacities which further direct people to understanding the philosophy of self-fulfilling prophecy.
When no person is sent with the same allocated purpose, when the journeys are particular to travel, when no drive is the motive of two people sitting next to each other, how do we expect humans to be having the same capacities and abilities to carry out a single task with equal efficiency of effect?
Why should all humans passing from the same test be ranked as comparatively worthy individuals to be respected or valued? Human already is worthy, enabled, valued and well-deserving to be respected. Every human holds particular attributes as adaptive features that assist them to fulfill their divine duty.
No human is sent with the same divine duty, how could the capacities be the same? Why should humans be compared, when everyone has been sent with a different purpose fulfillment! This vividly identifies to be having no point in judging individuals on a mere miserable ability while ignoring all others. Every human has a special innate set of capabilities which nature polishes at different instances in their lives.
The world of the 21st century is so diverse, and those education or examination systems that negate all human capacities, testing just their memory are simply on verge of destruction. The destruction which is inevitable to engulf when human capacities are not understood, sometimes in the name of systematic incompetencies, false-egos of administrators, and at times social, religious, or ethnic biases are blamed by the so-called educationist who happens to be the dictators of educational abodes.
History witnesses the facts indicating pathetic perspectives on methodologies to educating human minds. Owing to the multitudes of dismal and unfulfilling educational practices even the great scientists be it Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, or the masterminds like Steve Jobs all of them could not withstand and comprehend this one-sided, boring, and ridiculously too rigid-to-be-followed schooling syllabi including naive teaching pedagogical which unfortunately are still in practice providing formal education. On sharing his views regarding formal education Albert Einstein once remarked: “The only thing which interferes with my learning is education”
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The great American psychometrician, Howard Gardener emphasized the disregard to similar hypocritical ideology and presented “the theory of multiple intelligences ”. His work indicates eight universal bits of intelligence i.e visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, logical-mathematical, naturalistic with the addition of “existential intelligence” as possibly the ninth intelligence discovered so far in humans. Humans are the universe on their own, and discouraging them based on lacking any specific ability is absolute non-sense. Rumi the great theologian and Sufi mystic proclaimed once “Ordinary eyes categorize humans”. Understanding a human completely, is as difficult as understanding some mystery of undiscovered galaxies, how come humans be categorized?
In the modern advancing world of the 21st century, underestimating humane abilities would be a sin. Heinous and unforgivable one. With every advancing day, the number and credibility of skills are getting smartly modified. Although some skills which are high in demand of modern standards might open doors for competition and comparisons; but, disregarding all other humane capabilities based on a lacking ability would be the biggest mistake one could ever commit. Humans are adapting to not only surviving but to living in the best way possible where lame, conventional judgments are not only obscure but are too ignored to be pondered over and improvised. This leaves the rudimentary education systematic chains and social norms in unabandoning crises with a big question mark in their very meaningless existential identity to date.
The writer is an activist, performing artist, and a student of Applied Psychology at Punjab University Lahore.
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