In this day and age when education is seen as ticket to a wealthier future, the true purpose of education is missed. In a time when education has come to simply mean a good passage to a higher-paying job, the lofty goals of education are put on the sidelines. There is a dire need for people to advance as a community of individuals – a community that is bigger than the individuals that pursue their respective personal interests.

Even as they pursue education for future personal material gain, people should view education as a means to discover solutions to problems that ail this world, education to foster good relationship among the peoples of the earth, and education to reveal the truth to the greater many.

Education should be for the advancement of scientific knowledge that is measured, evaluated, and reviewed. This kind of knowledge is what cures diseases. It is what forwards technology towards the cutting-edge the kind of which we have not yet seen. This scientific information will truly make people’s lives easier, better, healthier, happier, and longer. Education is needed to discover, process, and validate these areas of information.

Education should be used for social purposes, as well. It is in the realm of education or learning where strategies are found and processed to be made useful in the negotiations for peace and end to strife, unrest, chaos, and violence. When we learn the appropriate ways to recommend for good relations among people, we promote peace. Peace does not just happen. It takes informed decisions to create peace. These informed decisions can only come from educated minds.

Finally, education is for the discernment of reality and the promotion of the truth that comes from reality. It takes an educated mind to know the difference among truth, half-truth, and lies. This world certainly needs more of the truth. Education teaches people to recognize the truth based on realities, and subsequently have the authority and confidence to spread that truth. Unless man learns of the truth, he shall continue to suffer. It is education’s role to teach the truth to as many people as possible. It is also education’s role to teach people how to spot fraud, prejudice, and injustice.

Education should be harnessed for the good of the majority. It takes education to discover ways to solve problems such as finding treatments to the otherwise incurable diseases of today. It takes education to build the means to unify people such as finding strategies to get to the root causes of hatred and violence that lead to the huge and costly wars on this planet. It takes education to learn the best practices to spread the truth around such as making people realize the irrevocable truth that they are the masters of their fate. Problems remain as problems until solutions are found. It is the noble goal of education to lead this world to the realization that solutions are sought.

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