Dear friends,
Good to see different view points.
Somehow I am unable to agree that lack of 'Education' is the only cause of all
the problems we see in the human behavior patterns.
“Education” is a highly subjective term that has vastly different meaning
depending on equally disparate situations and continuously evolving community
and social needs. Can any one say that all those who are indulging in terror and
violence in the name of religion, territorial and regionalist interests,
anti-social activities etc., are illiterates?
True; education helps to mould one’s mindset, outlook and life style. But
here again, it all depend on the essence of education. Education should cause
‘positive change’ in human being. Then we come to the issue of what is ‘positive
change’. From the viewer’s comments, it is clear that we have different
perceptions of the merits of education. If developing self-centric aggressive
tendencies and making it the social rules and adopting it as the life style is
considered to be the positive benefits of education, why search elsewhere, for
problems?
I had my education in a missionary run school, where inculcating human values
was an equally important objective as imparting knowledge. For me, it worked in
a 'positive' way in my life and in my outlook towards fellow humans.
My point of view is that human mind can undergo change by external influences
in various forms. The area that human mind can traverse is infinite. It is
possible that many may go through unusual, bizarre or abnormal or socially
unacceptable thoughts at some time or other in their life which may cross the
boundaries of social stipulations and ethics.
For some, such thoughts overtake the brain, making them undergo behavioral
change and grow beyond the barriers in an otherwise normal person. Then it is
to be considered as a disease needing cure as in the case of Schizophrenics.
There are good medicines to restrict Schizophrenia and same way cure can be
tried for many who imbibed negative tendencies by mental submission. I
sincerely hope, Bio-science will be of help. We depend on many preventive
medications right from birth for protection from deadly diseases.
Having one more to make a healthy mind and stable brain, if can be achieved with
Bio medicine, it shall be welcome.
Interested members (adult readers only) may please see my posting "Is it
right to legitimize homosexuality ---" in which I tried to explain the bizarre
relation between mind and brain. These are my own personal views and may not
Readers are welcome to take what they like and discard
Best Wishes, Paul