Sunday, January 27, 2013

KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION

By :-Muhammad Amin Asif
Education is as important for a society as blood for the human body.The societies those made progress in all fields of life are due to knowledge and education.When barbaric tribes of Arab became civilized and exemplary society of those times ruling almost many important parts of the world and ruined the so called super powers of that time  (IRAN AND ROME) .That was because of  arrival of the  best teacher of the universe, the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) who educated the barbaric tribal  people of  Arabia by the order of Almighty Allah through revelation and made them most civilized. Almighty Allah  made obligation for every men and women to get education and meditate on the creation of the universe.
 In many verses of The Holy Quran , almighty Allah clearly says that the people having knowledge(literate)  and without knowledge(illiterate) are not equal.











      I am quoting two famous Hadiths of the Holy prophet (PBUH) below in this regard


" Seek the Knowledge whether you have to go china for it".
In another eve he (PBUH) said,
, "Seek the knowledge from cradle to grave'.
 seeking of knowledge is equally important for everyone without considering cast,colour, creed,sex, language and area where they are living.It is clear decisions of Almighty Allah and his prophets that the only way to live better life in this world and the world after doomsday is to gain knowledge about this world and the world  after doomsday. Knowledge is not only stuck to schools and colleges only but it can be gained anywhere through different means.The best way to seek Knowledge is through the holy books sent by Almighty Allah through the 124,000 messengers of God.The last revelation of Almighty Allah is the Holy Quran.
        Importance of education is admitted by every segment of society and by the people of everywhere. Here are few famous quotes of the famous people of the world regarding education.


"Education is the best provision for old age." Aristotle

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle


"Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire." William B Yates 
 William B Yates


“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities — that's training or instruction — but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” Thomas More 


"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." Anatole France


"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." Herbert Spencer


“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Derek Bok


The information is in the people, not in your head.” Edward T. Hall


“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”” Edward T. Hall
“The mere imparting of information is not education.” Carter G. Woodson

“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.” Mason Cooley

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." B. F. Skinner


In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.” Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” Clifford Stoll


“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Samuel Johnson


“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used” Dr. Carl Sagan












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