Monday Mind- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education – Martin Luther King, Jr.”

We spend the most formative years of our lives in school, getting formal education. For what you may ask, to become intelligent? I say no. Intelligence is innate in every human being. Effective education should teach a person how to develop that intelligence and most importantly, it should instill in each person the capacity to know how to use that intelligence wisely and properly. It should develop not only knowledge, but also values. It is comforting to know that today, more and more efforts are made to include development of emotional quotient in children, aside from intelligence quotient. Mental learning and character building should go hand in hand. For what is knowledge if used for the wrong causes? Intelligence only works for us when we use it with our moral principles. We are social beings so it is only right to make decisions that are not solely beneficial to ourselves, but to those around us as well.

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