An average Pakistani when confronted with a question about what is a Revolution simply says that revolution is an act in which the common people take up the charge, establishment is overthrown, rulers are beheaded and killed, blood is spilled of both martyrs and sinners, many things change rapidly in relatively less time and in the end and order will be restored. However, a revolution is no singular event rather a chain of events. For many, revolution has become synonymous with blood, disorder and chaos. This is perhaps the tragedy of our society for revolution in totality is limited to violence. This is perhaps the reason why many average people are quite reluctant to associate themselves with any such movement that talks about revolution. People get involved in spirit but perhaps never in action for they fear that the revolution might feed on them.
So what is the missing link? The missing link is education. What we as a nation need is a mental revolution. Education is the only thing that can fight the ignorance of violence in order for justice and reason to prevail and lead, substituting violence to the back seat and encouraging people to come forward and lead.
By: Syed Wajahat Ali
Mr. Wajahat is very right in his views. I also agree that we can bring a positive change thru education only...
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comments Rizwana.
ReplyDeleteWe are glad that you consider the role of education as the driving force.
Thank you Rizwana for your precious comments.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed, education to me is the missing link.
Revolutions are not mere blood and violence, there has to be an intellectual driving force behind each and every revolution so as not to allow it to run rogue and spiral out of control.
Yes, very close ... I would like to add that it's not Education to be precise, your A-B-Cs don't make you a better individual but morals do.
ReplyDeleteOver the period of time we have lost our moral values, we got no civic sense, we honk around, we spread mess and what not. From any perspective, we don't seem to represent a civilized crowd. African Tribes have high morals than ours!
@Mr Mirza....Education of morality is also a part of education which I agree with Wajahat that this country is in dire need of.
ReplyDeleteMorality is indeed a part of formal education and sadly, it is not in many institution. Over here, a mention of Plato's Idea Republic can be bought in where Plato places education of the morals quite high and gives the responsibility to teach morals to the Guardians i.e Teachers.
ReplyDeleteIn our society, the biggest tragedy is that our teachers are paid quite less compared to, lets say a doctor or an engineer. A teacher essentially is an ENGINEER of an entire generation but sadly, is not awarded accordingly thereby leaving no motivation for him to put in effort.
Great discussion people.
ReplyDeleteHowever, building upon the argument, don't you think that our education system as a whole is being controlled by some elites who are quite resistant to reform it fearing it might start a educational revolution and thereby establish a "questioning" culture.
Asim Gul talked about "Neo-Slavery" in his contribution to this blog http://chambaili.blogspot.com/2013/04/neo-slavery.html . Do you agree with him that the elite do control our lives.