The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. The mind should be ignited and not dumped in with knowledge.

Education is not the preparation for life; education is life itself.

It is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change

the world.

Nowadays, children are leading a very stressful life and getting

educated in a wrong way. They are finding ways to acquire

bookish knowledge rather than understanding it. Knowledge is

gained through experience and not through bookish

knowledge. Students are studying for the sake of grades. But

they should know that grades do not define intelligence.

Bookish knowledge is materialistic and forgettable. People

should see the world with different eyes; eyes filled with

curiosity and creativity. Everyone have wings, all we have to do

is “fly”. Spread your wings across the universe, across the

mightiest wind of knowledge. Get immersed deep into the sea

of learning and you will never actually come out, because, the

beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away

from you.

You never want to get on a plane where the pilot learned to fly

from worksheets. Everyone must have practical and applicative

knowledge. Don’t try to measure how educated you are;

instead, measure how much you have travelled. If you listen,

you will forget. If you see you will remember. And if you

involve, you will understand. Not all classrooms have four walls.

In anything, find the strange thing and explore it. If you get bad

grades, don’t worry because you know how much knowledge

you have gained. Educating yourself does not mean that you

were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent

enough to know that there is a plenty left to learn. Imagination

is more important than knowledge. If you want your children to

be intelligent, read them fairly tales. If you want them to be

more intelligent, read them more fairytales.

Education can be gained only through interest. You must fight

harder for your interests rather than the rights. The biggest

mistake we make is trying to mug up everything for the sake of

good grades by using fear as the greatest motivation. Interest

can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear

explosion to a firecracker. You must learn not because you have

to, but because you want to. Kids need to be empowered and

not engaged. As the saying goes, “Education is not the learning

of facts, but the training of the mind to think”.