‘I was born intelligent, education spoilt me!’…I could make
out the meaning of this quote by Sir Isaac Newton only after I started looking
for something logical and reasonable in everything that involved imagination’s
fertile yield. Whenever I read books (which are utterly magnificent), watch
television shows or movies, I just don’t feel like using the creative-thinking
part of my grey matter, my first statement after every fantasized scene is
“This is practically IMPOSSIBLE!”. I guess that’s why it is called the ‘GREY’ matter
because some of our minds are not enough open to let us ponder into
imaginations and thoughts of different shades of colour and thus resembles to
the dust on the old textbooks which have limited our range of imagining.
Come to think of Isaac Newton, had he been educated he would
have eaten the apple that fell on his head instead of questioning “WHY?” it
fell downwards. After all, apples are meant to be eaten and not pondered upon,
that’s what we have been taught! Ten years action-replay…I would question the
simplest and commonest of things around me, having curiosity as my only teacher
and imagination my head-mistress. But today, my brain seems to have gotten
struck with drought, awaiting the arrival of the blissful showers of varyingly
coloured thoughts that can make it intellectual and blossoming with wild buds
of imagination again.
We need an education system where we are encouraged to question
the facts, where already numbered talents are not just acknowledged but
extraordinary ideas are recognized as new genres in art which goes beyond
infinite.
Until then, I hope for the betterment of our education
system which really educates us by not binding our minds around heavy
text-books and letting them go WILD & FREE!!!
Kudos
~Draught-stricken.
