Education should focus on these topics

Gaurav Khanna
Aug 27, 2017 · 3 min read

Knowledge is the most powerful tool and education drives that. Irrespective of how great the medium education is, there is an important piece of the puzzle missing. It definitely prepares us for earning money and be a good employee but it lacks the preparation to make us a good human being. For the sake of this article, let us consider education as an entity than merely a process.

I think 💭 following few topics education should consider in the same order of importance.

  1. Health: What to eat and what not. How healthy body can overcome any hurdle and how unhealthy body can lead to disaster. Without a healthy body and mind, everything else is useless. Your Job, money, relations, expensive cars, all luxury of the world. Education should make health its utmost priority and students should adopt the ideology.
  2. Relationships: We are a social animal and without good relations in our life, we breathe but we do not live. Education must teach us the value of good relations and prepare us to keep the boat floating. It should teach us how to tackle the hard moments. Without relations, we are just a breathing body in a metal car 🚗
  3. Communication: Every student must be taught the power of communication and adverse effect of not speaking up. This power of expressing your thoughts, ideas, and emotions differentiates us from all other animal species. Education should make everyone speak and encourage students to communicate with strangers.
  4. Social: Being introvert or extrovert is not a choice a person makes, it is the result of upbringing. None is bad but education should teach us we are a part of society. Irrespective of how much you earn individually, you can spend money only on things society is offering. Education should promote group learning and teach students power of working as a team.
  5. Express: From asking a girl for a date to pushing for your dream job. If you want something, trying is the only solution you should have. Education should eradicate word ‘regret’ from students life and nurture them to express themselves.
  6. Conservative: Education should teach proudly: this is the knowledge till date; don’t be conservative and always welcome other people ideas and respect their opinion. Most of the relation we kill is because of our inability to accept the other person thought process.
  7. Past present and future: What has happened, you can not change. What will happen, many factors play role in that. How to act now is in your hands. Education should teach students not to live in past or future. Most of us spend our good present regretting about bad past OR waste good present in hope for a better future which comes as present if that time.
  8. Humanity: All of above topics are targeted to a single individual. If you can not help yourself, you can not help others. Health, relations, and work are the right order to live a meaningful life. Last but not the least, education should make students understand what humanity is and set them on a good path.

After all, we are programmed with what is taught to us from day 1 of our life. There could be many other items you would like to add here. Let us know in comments ❤

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