On Education.

The modern world and the so called modern educated people often judge a person in terms of formal education. The one with the most degrees and certificates is thought to be a learned, wise one while the not so educated are looked down upon.

Reflecting deep, the question arises is… Is it the degree and the certificates signifies education or is it the values instilled, attitude and mindset do?

The other day I was having a cup of tea at a local tapri(tea stall) while on my office break. As I stood there sipping tea engrossed in deep thought over the vagaries of life, I chanced to set my eyes upon a Labourer who had come to the stall to buy a cup of tea for him and his little 5 year old son. They were very meagrely dressed, with their clothes soiled and the father’s forehead gleaming with the hard earned sweat.

I observed that the little child finished his tea before the father, and went curiously for the neared dustbin available. He crumbled the paper cup very gracefully and put it inside the Dustbin, as the father kept a watchful eye.

Though the act may sound very ordinary, yet it was so uncommon and refreshingly surprising. Now here was a little child who might not have even started going to school and yet he displayed a level of the highest education. The civil sense that he displayed was remarkable against a backdrop of the hordes of so called educated people I see at the very same place littering the place.

Man, I salute the child and his father, both. Child for being such a responsible citizen so early in life and the father for having imbibed such values in the child. May the lord bless them and give them the joy, happiness and comfort that they deserve.

Small wonder, isn’t he? Educated without going to school, isn’t he?

Enter DarKnightRyder.

Finally, DarKnightRyder has arrived.

I've been toying with the idea of writing and sharing my views with the world for quite some time. Had never got started though. However, better late than never!

So here I go kick-starting my blog, I hope it will be Firestarter.I dream of a beautiful world, where everyone will be happy, where there will be peace and harmony. Where joy and laughter will know no bounds and sorrows will cease. Where tears will only come out of happiness.

Come; share the dream with me, who knows we might live the dream one day. The thought reminds me about Charlie Chaplin's speech in “The Great Dictator". This was around 70 years ago. Unfortuantely, the world has learned nothing from it. For starters who are unaware of the speech, here is a chance to read the marvel, which is so easy to follow, yet ironically, has never been really appreciated:

"Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.But we have lost the way.Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...People - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts.

You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. People - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

People - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."

I want to share this beautiful road with all. Come on people. Will you walk on it with me? Can we start a movement, to change the world into a Heaven?

Because Heaven...is right here. Hell is right here.
Its what we choose to make of it.

Ill be back. Till then,

TaTa.
DarKnightRyder.