By Jesse Raglmar-Subolmar To our educators, whose duty is now more acute than when education was flourishing but nonetheless, they must go on to perfect instruction and advance and impart quality education onto our children, on whose shoulders rest our future as well as that of their children. JRS 2014 “God has made you capable of education. It is therefore your duty to educate yourselves as far as in you lies, and your right that the society to which you belong should not hinder you in your work of education, but should help you in it and supply you with means of education when you lack them. Your liberty, your rights, your emancipation from unjust social conditions, the life-work which each of you has to fulfill here on earth, depend upon the degree of education which it is given you to obtain. Without education you cannot choose rightly between good and evil; you cannot acquire a knowledge of your own rights; you cannot obtain that share in political life without which you will never succeed in emancipating yourselves; you cannot define your own life-work by yourselves. Education is the bread of your soul. Without it your faculties lie numb and unfruitful, as the vital power which dwells in the seed lies sterile if it is cast into untiled solid and lacks the benefit of irrigation and the care of a diligent husbandman. …..EDUCATION is addressed to the moral faculties; INSTRUCTION to the intellectual. The first develop in man the knowledge of his duties [and his ethics]; the second makes him capable of fulfilling them. Without instruction, education would be too often ineffective; without education instruction would be a lever lacking a fulcrum. You can read; what does that amount to if you cannot tell which books contain error, which the truth? You are able by writing to communicate your thoughts to your brothers; what is the use if your thoughts only express egoism? INSRTUCTION, like riches, can be a sources of either good or evil according to the intention with which it is used. Consecrated to the general progress it is a means of civilisation and of liberty; used only for personal advantage it becomes a means of tyranny and corruption. The distinction between the men who offer you more or less instruction , and those who preach education to you, is deeper than you suppose, and I must devote a few words especially to the subject.” NEXT TIME.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 03:42:27 +0000
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