Education does matter the
most in our life. The formal education (traditional mental education) is not
enough to grow in every aspect of human life while the life changing education-
a combination of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual education is the
real education to grow in every aspect of human life.
The difference between
the values found in traditional education and the value found in life-changing education is the difference between the values placed on
learning from our mistakes, verses punishing people for making mistakes, and
placing value on the human spirit, a spirit powerful enough to overcome any
lack of mental, emotional or physical talents.
- The reason most people
never find the wealthy person inside of them is because the poor person still
thinks it’s bad to make mistakes.
“Turning Caterpillars into butterflies”- The movie Top Gun, starring
Tom Cruise, was about the very best of the caterpillars that the Navy Flight
School turned into butterflies. When you are looking into an education plan
seek out the successful people in the world, and then ask yourself if you want
to learn from them.
Thomas Edison, Einstein, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs,
Henry Ford, Mahatma Gandhi, Tata’s, Birla’s, Ambani’s, Narayan Murthy, Ajiz
Premji
– made lot of mistakes but learnt from their own mistakes, many of them are dropouts
from traditional education but became monster butterflies, forever changed the
world of education.
- So an education that is
powerful enough to change a caterpillar into a butterfly (metamorphosis) is the
life changing education.
Read on…………………..
A true life changing
education, must affect all points of Learning:
-Mental, Emotional, Physical and Spiritual Education.
Traditional education
focuses primarily on mental education. Skills such as reading, writing and
arithmetic, all very important skills. These are all cognitive skills. But only
mental education is not sufficient, one must learn the emotional, physical and
spiritual aspects of life.
Traditional education preys
on the emotion of fear, the fear of making mistakes which leads to the fear of
failing. Instead of inspiring to learn, traditional education use the fear of
failure to motivate students, saying such things as,” If you don’t get good
marks(grades), you won’t get high paying jobs.”
The problem is, in the
real world, the people who get ahead are the people who make the most mistakes
and learn from them.
Making mistakes, how we
are designed to learn. We learn to ride bicycle by falling off and getting back
on again, falling off and getting back on. But, ”It is sin to make a mistake
and not learn from it”. The reason so many people lie after making a mistake
because they are emotionally terrified of admitting they made a mistakes, hence
they waste an opportunity to learn and grow.
Making a mistake,
admitting it without blaming on someone else, justifying or making excuses is
how we learn. Making a mistake and not admitting, or blaming someone else for
your mistakes, is a sin.
If an education
encourages you to learn by making mistakes, correcting and getting smarter
mentally as well as emotionally then it is a life changing education for you.
You would probably never have learned to ride a bicycle if you were punished
for falling off and given a failing grade in bicycle riding.
Simply put, if you are
afraid of making mistakes, you don’t learn much because you don’t do much. Most
people think that learning is really a physical process as much as it is mental
process. Reading and writing are physical processes, just as learning to play
football is a physical process. If you have been conditioned to know all the
right answers and not to make mistakes, the chances are your education process
is hampered (wrong).
How can you progress if
you know all the answers but are terrified of trying anything?
Traditional education
encourages you to learn the facts and then emotionally teaches you to be afraid
of making mistakes, which holds you back physically. Living in an environment
of fear is not healthy-mentally, emotionally, physically or financially.
You cannot improve your
future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and
learning from them.
If an education encourage
you to go out and face your fears by taking action, making a mistakes, learning
from the mistake, and growing mentally, emotionally and physically stronger
then it is a life changing education.
Good religious
organizations (education) strengthen a person spiritually and bad religious
organizations weaken a person spiritually. So a spiritual education may or may
not include religious education.
“Touching the Spirit-is about in going beyond human limitations”
(power), that power propels us past our mental, emotional and physical
limitations (human condition).
If an education has the ability to train you to
speak to the human spirit, inspire you to move up… to go beyond your limitations,……........................to
go beyond your doubts and fears then it is true Life-Changing-Education.
