<p>The intention of giving comparative figures of worshipping places vs schools is to highlight the impact of the religion in the Indian life. The religious activities are mostly based on the belief whereas the education gives us the power to set up a logic behind every happening. The blind faith in rituals leads to superstitions and for elimination of the superstitions, we need education. Secondly, worship place includes mosques, churches, gurudwaras and other set-ups too. In some of such set-ups, we find educational wings like madarsa etc. too which impart religious teachings only. Only religious teachings sometime make out fanatics who create problems for the followers of other religions as we are witnessing now. Here, lies the need of enhancing independent educational institutes where career oriented programmes can be carried out.<p>
Absolutely, the need and importance of education can never be denied. Installation of quality education is the need of hour. Even if religious institution goes and carries on religion based education system still, they can widen the scope for modern education side by side. It is the truth and fact that one need to be emblem bed with modern education and professional education in order to stay ahead in the cut throat competitive environment.
Vinod Kumar Gulati wrote:<p>The intention of giving comparative figures of worshipping places vs schools is to highlight the impact of the religion in the Indian life. The religious activities are mostly based on the belief whereas the education gives us the power to set up a logic behind every happening. The blind faith in rituals leads to superstitions and for elimination of the superstitions, we need education. Secondly, worship place includes mosques, churches, gurudwaras and other set-ups too. In some of such set-ups, we find educational wings like madarsa etc. too which impart religious teachings only. Only religious teachings sometime make out fanatics who create problems for the followers of other religions as we are witnessing now. Here, lies the need of enhancing independent educational institutes where career oriented programmes can be carried out.<p>
Wish you were right. In India people get educated to learn a skill which will give them bread and butter. Otherwise almost all are as superstitious as the uneducated. Education has not made the desired dent. Even the Director of the Mars mission, before the Mangalyan launch held a pooja to boost chances of success. He apparently had more faith in it than his scientists and engineers (who also were praying)
Director of the Mars Mission before the Mangalyan launch holding Pooja has hampered the Success of Mangalyan success ? What's wrong if the director holds a puja for the success of the mission . Had he wished success without doing any efforts, then that's wrong.
Let's see the final output.
Belief is personal and just because a person is educated does not mean that he or she is going to give up his beliefs in god or religion. As long as it does not stand in the way of progress it hardly matters what ones personal leanings are.this is where the so called rationalists of our country have failed to make any mark because they force their views on believers going to the extent of ridiculing peoples faith which is why they are in turn hated by the majority of people. This also goes to show that most of them have failed to gauge the majority feeling ! Education may alter ones lifestyle and beliefs to a certain extent but not completely because these beliefs binds a person to his family, community and place.
People have right to their beliefs and a rationalist should not infringe on the beliefs and views of who he perceives as an irrationalist, however right or wrong he or she may be ...Let people have the freedom to decide for themselves instead of being constantly ridiculed about their faith and belief.
I agree that no one's faith should be ridiculed. But rationalists should not be killed for speaking what they feel is right. Munshi Premchand has written a beautiful story of a poor man whose cat dies being asked by the Brahmin to donate a cat cast in gold to avoid the horrible fate that awaits him otherwise. In today's atmosphere I shudder to think what would have happened to Premchand.
While we have freedom of press which was almost nil until the nineties or even later than that , writers too have had great freedom to write and express themselves, much more than ever before, so much so that some of them began to think that they could go to any extent to show how free they are by ridiculing others beliefs and faith. While rationalists and rationalist writers may ridicule the idea of religion and education coming together, they sre only showing their intolerance and short sighted views.
Education is very important to curb superstition but education is not a barrier to anyone's faith and belief. I would say both education and faith can go a long way without being each other's hindrance. True education helps to understand one another's faith and never comments negatively so having worship place has no connection with educational institutions. If some one comes up with negative approach then a problem arises or else there is no reason to oppose having numerous worship places.
There is no need for anyone to go around proclaiming that he or she is a rationalist and group around and look down on the rest of the people ...Actions speak louder than words.Recently Kalburgi who went to the extent of supporting people who had peed and spat on Hindu gods statues , was cremated with al Hindu ceremonies...Most of these people who claim to be rationalists are on unsteady ground , with one foot there and one foot here , not knowing which is truly theirs !
A member has opined that the freedom of press was nil till the nineties or later. Will this statement be classified as an rational or irrational statement. Because barring the period from June 1975 till mid 1977, the press in India has always been free. Just as Kalburgi got carried away we also get carried away sometimes.
Indian media has always been controlled by the party in power which was mostly by one family and the media was the mouth piece of the government ..Media was opened up along with other things during P V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh's tenure, which was of course partly initiated earlier by Manmohan Singh under Rajeev Gandhis rule. The real press freedom came after that..
Perhaps the member has not heard of editors like Frank Moraes, Rusi Karanjia, Cartoonist Shankar,, Durga Das etc who were fearless journalists right from Nehru's time onwards.Perhaps she is talking about the government media and not the entire media. Govt media as per its ownership will always be a moutn piece of the govt. But herl last lne that "The real press freedom came after that' again confuses teissue. Barring emergency period the non govt. media has always been free.
It would be better if Modi Government should organize an Education Commission for revamping of the whole education system to make it more vocational skill-oriented with due respect to the cultural values of Bharat. That Commission can involve the public participation too to avoid any objection later on. Since every day of the nation is precious, the Commission may be allowed minimum period with vast resources to give report.
@Vinod Gulati