Sunday, September 26, 2010

In quest of fuller life.

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied" said Socrates.

This speaks about the value of human happiness over the pleasure of sensual gratification. Through this platform, its our endeavour to bring in the consciousness amongst the educated urbanites towards this distinction.

Its heart burning to know, according to a latest survey, that only 20% of Indian population is honest. However, if one wishes to take out positive output from the survey; it is found that 49% of population is in favour of 'keeping subjects like moral studies and human values in acedamic curriculam.' This indicates that people do appreciate the value of morals and ethics but they don't find opportunities to learn them in the schools.

          
With the increasing trend of specialization, academic education is becoming more and more focused on vocations. We have been producing great number of Engineers, Doctors, Financial Analysts and business Managers. While, with their unquestionably high professional competancy, their contribution in country's GDP remains praise-worthy; together, they do not form a happy and cultured society. The lack of moral education has made them 'money makers' and they seldom feel the need to appreciate the value of humane faculties. The question remains, where do we wish to take the human society ? Leave aside cherishing life, can we expect people with such a training to even know other higher dimensions of life ?

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