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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