A Meaningful Education is Necessary for All of Us.
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One of the most justifiable charges against our educational system is that
it discourages independent thinking and suppresses originality and creativity.
The main function of education is the transmission of knowledge Insofar
as education transmits the already discovered knowledge, it is a
conservative force. Education becomes a revolutionary force when
in the process of transmission of knowledge, it transmutes knowledge
so as to meet the challenges thrown up by an ever-changing reality.
As Iqbal puts it:
The essence of the universe is created.
Repetitiveness does not contribute to the strengthening of life.
One of the consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution is the notion
that human activity is a manifestation of the creative force inherent in
life itself. The creative force of evolution seems to heaven itself
forward into an inexhaustible variety of forms unique unprecedented,
unrepeatable and irreversible.
Life is creative because it organises and regulates itself and these
novelties arise in response to genetic change and to changes in the
environment. In man, there appears the power consciously to initiate
novelty the power of creative imagination. This power is expressed
in man's ability to find order in a mass of particulars, to impose
meaning and pattern on a multitude of things or experiences that at
first sight seems unrelated.
Henry Bergson maintains in his magnum opus Creative Evolution
that novelty and hence creativity are products, not simply of life,
but of reality itself. Ultimately reality, he says is an evolving process,
which is becoming ever more complex and which constantly states
but genuinely unprecedented. The human personality is constantly
forming itself. Each experience adds something to it so that it is
ceaselessly growing and changing.
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