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Writer's pictureLalit Kishore

Present day education enslaves us to the world and markets all the more!

"The (conditioned) mind moves from the known to the known, and it cannot reach out into the unknown. You cannot think of something you do not know; it is impossible. What you think about comes out of the known, the past, whether that past be remote, or the second that has just gone by. This past is thought, shaped and conditioned by many influences, modifying itself according to circumstances and pressures, but ever remaining a process of time," says noted thinker, philosopher and seer J Krishnamurti.


If we go by the thoughts of J Krishnamurti, the present day education - prescribed and delivered by the 'world' - is conditioning to the known and preparation of individuals to become a cogwheel of the system. Even mundane activities of the world have been converted into 'academic disciplines' by the markets and are being pushed into education system for conditioning and certification to serve the markets.



Here is my non-poem on education as worldly affair is conditioning to the known and the past to enslave individuals


NON-POEM


The mind

As shaped by the world -

Our upbringing, social learning, formal learning, markets, media -

Are journeys from known to known

Codified through sounds, visuals and texts

Work as stimulations

To project and reinforce the known

Converted into codified disciplines

By the world itself

~*~

Our mind -

Conditioned mechanically

To perceived known

Is limited to belief-thinking

Is mere copy-cat

Is sheer sheep-following

Is mad rat-race

For worldly success

By hook or crook -

It is an egoist mind

It is an addicted mind

It is a deluded mind

~*~

Our education

By and large

Is conditioning to the known -

That dwells in the past -

Codified by others

Even though the prescribed processes

May sound noble at times

But they are used to validate the known

They too are conditioning

They too reinforce the past

Education - all the more -

Has become commercial venture

To produce and market dignified slaves


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