It is 8:00 pm on 20th march. My microprocessor lab file is due to be
submitted tomorrow and I haven’t even started my work on it. Besides it is a
whole night’s job so it can’t take less than a night hence I can’t start just
now. Honestly it is a lot of work and I am starting to feel the pressure.
Tonight’s venture is bound to crash and it feels like an opportune moment to
feed my new blog, thus the name crashFed!
I woke up at 2:30 pm today as I couldn’t
sleep anymore. My head was reeling from the exhaustion of the sleep and hunger
from the last 18 hours of empty stomach. Mess had closed and I went to canteen
for my lunch. I found Rashid there sipping an untimely tea. An hour later we
were sitting in my room chatting on anything worth chatting about. It is then
that this thought came to me and we discussed this for a while.
Scientific education is important and so is
religious education. Science feeds the rational need of our being while religion
answers the calls of our spiritual self. Both for the latter half of the last millennium
have taken different course in the realm of world. My question was addressed to
this. Why, when both are so natural need of ours, can’t they be put together?
The ancient Indian institution of Gurukul
focused on an education in all spheres of life. In this system all education
was imparted by a guru. Today in India only Madrasas impart education in
a religious environment. Though the institution is important in bringing faith
in religion they have a reach limited to the Muslim populace and mostly limits
itself to religion.
Since it is impractical to have different religious
boards and this may also bring about mistrust among people, why can’t we
provide optional religious studies in our mainstream education? By doing this
we promote tolerant religious views in our students and check the rise of
conflicts. This may be done in after hours of school, maybe once or twice in a
week. Also the religion can be taught by religious people rather than teachers.
We
must recognize that faithlessness is a serious problem in today’s world and ironically
so is religious extremism. By this we can check both. Is this an interesting view?
Do comment. Anyways it was a nice experience writing this first blog post and was
also a fine recluse. Now it is time for me to step back into the real world and
prepare for the crash, so until the next time, goodbye.
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nicely written ,,appreciate it...
ReplyDeletenot muchh for the first comment on the first blog..,, but would say godspeed
Thank you. You are recorded as the first person to read this blog!
DeleteBeautifully constructed. Congrats on the first post, had been waiting for it since a long time.
ReplyDeleteAlthough i appreciate your views on the topic, i would also like to state that if different religious teachings are introduced into the mainstream of the educational system, it might lead to differences among the students as they might not be intellectually as mature as we would want them to be. I very strongly feel that at least at the school level, the same thing should be taught to each and every student as religion is a very delicate topic in a country as vast and as varied as ours.
I am with you on that one but I was not talking about its introduction in primary education. When we are in class 9-10 etc we are mature enough to understand. Moreover I am not talking about throwing our students in the path of religious motivators. I am talking about regulating the content of what is taught. In this way we can promote communal harmony and it may turn out to be beneficial for the nation.
DeleteWritten very nicely. It's true but pretty much unaccepted by the youth. Science seemed to supress the religious beliefs..
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