After a long time…

I think this is the Nth after a longtime that I am writing here. I always lose track of many things, this is no exception to it. Simply to say, I am a normal human being.

So what did I want to write…hmmm there are many things that were running in my mind the last few weeks. One of that is the meanings of the words “educated” and “learned”. I was wondering why there are two words that means the same. Finally found out that they are not the same. They are something that is completely different. How? I figured out that this is the actual meaning.

Educated: A person is categorized educated if that person had had formal education of some sort. There is again levels in this education. Which are categorized to say, schooling, Diploma, UG, PG, Doctor.

Learned: A person is categorized as learned if that person had had learning from his/her own or others’ experience. There is nothing formal in this. There are no levels in this or at least I haven’t found that out yet.

If that’s the case then why do we need education, everyone will be a learned sometime or the other? That is right. But, how strong will a building be without proper foundation. Yes, education is a foundation. People who hadn’t had proper education became learned but when is the question? What is education, it is the mode of teaching the past experiences that people had experienced and the learning that they got from it. This is education. It will expedite ones learning from the life. If an uneducated person, takes 50 years for becoming a learned, an educated person will take less than half of it. For sure.

Of course, there are many things to it, like the approach. As I said earlier, it is the learning that people got from their experience, so this equates to what is called perception. There are always 359 other perceptions to any experience. So to become learned a person should analyze his education, take all 360 possible angles into consideration and then make a learning of it. This is true learning.

Thiruvalluvar, said this entire one page blog-entry in just 7 words. it goes like this:

karka kasadara kattravai kattrapin
nirkka atharkkuth thaga