Educate Yourself To Face The New World!

From ancient ages, people moved to agrarian age and then moved to industrial age. We are now leaving behind the industrial age and entering the information age. Soon we will reach info-golden age and you can imagine how fast the world will change in front of our eyes. Before we wink our eyes, many things will have changed. The speed, values, portability, movement, quality and standard of living will rise so high that if you don’t educate yourself you won’t be able to face the new world because you won’t have leveraged skills to handle. It is better that you educate yourself for the brand new world.

1. Educate yourself to predict and use the new technology.

The technology of the future will be completely different from the present technology. The computer system that we have today will drastically change and it will be more handy and portable. It will be of high quality and durability that technology will determine every walk of our life. So it will be very important for people to prepare themselves by educating about the use of new technology.  You should educate yourself to predict the future technology so that you can easily get an edge over others. Ten years from now new technology breakthrough will revolutionise the whole world so much that it would seem we are the real co-creators.  Are you educating yourself enough to predict the future technology and thereby apply the same to one’s advantage?

2. Improve your communication skills.

The mode of communication too will change in coming years, as you know the process has already begun. Are you efficiently able to communicate with others that they get the message clearly?.  Improving one’s communication skills will have a greater positive impact in your life. Communication skills here mean- negotiating, advertising, persuading, marketing, networking and selling. If you learn these skills, you will be able to face the new world. The new world will not be what it is today; the new world will be more expressive. So it is essential to develop your communication skills to get an edge over others.

3. Educate yourself to innovate your relationship

The present stage of friendship, relationship and marriage will not remain the same as it is. Today people fall in love, become friends and even marry one another to raise offspring. This is a traditional style which is prevalent in the world today. But it would go through a massive change in the years to come. There is already a sign of change visible even today. The married couples no longer feel  today loved, satisfied, happy and committed to each other as a result they take strong steps to move apart from each other. Couples are finding hard to live together till death because there is a monotonous and boring life style. If people don’t innovate new ways to stay in love with their spouses or partners, it will be like living in hell.  People no longer will accept marriage as a sacred sacrament, it will be a contract for a day, a week,  a month or a year.  The style of having children will also vary. Either it will be a single or two parents or a child bearing institute where it will monitor the population and accordingly raise kids.  It is better to innovate love life, friendship and marriage life now to suit  the new world.

4. Educate yourself about financial matter.

Today we have paper money which we call currency and it is controlled by centrally owned institutes in the world. The money system has already gone through many changes. The currency was backed with gold reserves, but it has been taken off from gold standard to debt system. Today we have credit cards, debit cards, cheques and fiat notes guaranteed by the governments of the world. This system will no longer exist in the years to come. There will be a powerful system to control the world and its people through another system which may not be the perfect one but it will exist because the bill will be signed into a law. It has happened in the past and it will be repeated again in the future. It is therefore important to educate yourself about money and financial system to work in your favour.

5. Educate Yourself how to stay healthy.

There will be a great technological change on one hand and on the other hand there will be serious health issues emerging due to massive lifestyle changes. Today already the process has begun and you can spot many kinds of health issues affecting millions and millions of people all over the world. It will be a wise choice to educate oneself about health, nutritious food and natural medicines. If you want to live in the new world, you got to study and learn how to prevent various diseases. It will be a matter of great concern for people to be healthy and fit to perform their activities. Having a good health will play a great role in your life and you can’t neglect to educate yourself to have healthy body, mind and soul. Start the process to educate yourself to be healthy and fit so that you can be happy and exist in the new world satisfactorily.

These are some of the important areas where you must work hard to educate and learn about because they will surely be the main determining factors in the future. You can’t neglect educating yourself for the new world. If you forget and take it lightly, then it will hurt you so much when the time arrives. Prepare yourself and educate yourself to face the new world. You can face the new world only when you educate yourself by being a responsible person. Innovate, discover and learn continuously to live a better life in the years ahead.

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The Power Of Self-education Over Formal Education!

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”  Jim Rohn

What do you want in your life- a mere living or a big fortune? What would you choose between these two? All over the world, 95% of population choose to make only a living than 5% who make a fortune. What is a living and what is a fortune? A living helps people to survive and get by in life for a day or two. It can’t afford what you want and desire in life. While a fortune is big and abundant. It comes in large quantity where you have more than enough to afford things that you possibly want to have. Self-education assists one to make a fortune and have a greater lifestyle while formal education provides only a living.

Self-education is very important today if you want to make a fortune and you must aim for a big fortune. Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Robert Kiyosaki, Richard Branson and all those famous college drop-outs were able to make a big fortune because they embraced self-education. They continued to learn once they left the schools and colleges. Their learning curve never dropped downward rather remained upward. Because of their choice, they succeeded in attracting big fortunes and they are the real and practical examples of self-education.

Formal Education or school education alone will not give you a lifestyle that you seek to have in your life. Formal education that you get in the schools is limited and insufficient. You must never allow your learning curve to go downward. In other words, make an effort to learn continuously even after you complete your graduation. There is a lot to learn by yourself because schools and colleges don’t teach the most essential things of life. They don’t teach you about self-education that gives you a fortune so you must embark upon a journey to educate yourself as much as you can.

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child,” George Bernard Shaw. Children need to pursue their appetite for knowledge and self-development because at school children don’t learn enough. It is good to go to school but it should be made clear to students that formal education can’t guarantee a full financial freedom and security that people seek in life. In today’s economic uncertainty, the formal education is unable to provide jobs and financial security for people. Who have lost their homes and jobs? People who didn’t have self-education are wiped out and are unemployed today.

Albert Einstein once said, “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” Great men and women who have made a big success understand that formal education is not sufficient, phd won’t guarantee a financial security or freedom. What gives freedom is the self-education. Educating oneself is the most and urgent requirement of this present world. I understand, it is hard to learn by oneself but it gets easier when you start the process.

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Carl Roger. Rely on self-education to make a big difference in your life, Self-education will feed you for days, though you may not work everyday. But formal education will feed you for a day and not for years. Make a right choice to educate yourself, develop your skills and talent so that you attract a big fortune that belongs to you. Embrace self-education over formal education but don’t neglect your formal education at young age. You should go to school to learn to read, write and understand before you could take up self-education.

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Teach People To Be Victors Not Victims!

“No victor believes in chance.” Friedrich Nietzsche

If you consider yourself a victor then you should never believe in victimhood, for you are born winner. People learn in schools and colleges to be victims- a loser or a failure. They don’t have an attitude of a victor when they are faced with problems and obstacles. It is important that people should be taught to be victors and not victims. The whole system tries to drag people to be victims of bad habits.

Victims of drugs, alcohol,  smoking, crimes etc.

The young people go to schools and colleges regularly in order to acquire education but they don’t learn anything much about life. They don’t learn about being victors, instead they go to schools to learn how to use drugs, how to get drunk and how to smoke cigarettes and eat marijuana. The majority of students at schools and colleges are victims of these drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. The parents send their kids to educate themselves so that they can live a good life but they are all learning bad habits. They choose directly to be victims rather than victor. The health care cost has sky-rocketed over the decades and still the youngsters bother less about their health. It is a tragic story that heart attacks, obesity, mental imbalance etc are rampart among the young people yet they choose to be victims.

You are born a victor so be a victor.

People are born a winner and they should respect that and choose things that are good and positive to life, health and happiness. If people can choose good health and good eating habits then they will be victors in the world. They won’t fall sick and become a victim of ill health through out their lives. Many people rely on medicines to cure their illnesses and many people visit as many doctors as they can to talk about their history of disease. These people tell their victim stories  to as many people as they meet and become victims again.

You are born a victor so you must talk and share about things that you want to achieve in your life. By talking and thinking about them will make you eventually a victor so go ahead thinking positive and victorious thoughts. The empowering thoughts raise people’s standard, hope and confidence. So think and behave like a victor, a winner. Say to yourself, ” I am a victor and a winner. I win and I succeed in whatever I do.”

Winning attitude will make you a victor while loser attitude will make you a victim. Choose to be a victor always till you become a victor. Never allow your victim attitude to take a hold of your mind. You are bigger than the circumstances and the situation should not subdue you. You must control the circumstances and problems. Overcome your victim mentality. Teach yourself to be a victor, a winner and you will be a victor soon.

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Schools And Colleges Don’t Give Financial Education!

“We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.” Robert Kiyosaki

What really matters in life are not taught to the students instead what matters least are taught in the schools and colleges. It is a sad phenomena because students are not prepared thoroughly to face the real world after they graduate from the university. Financial education is very much required today in this uncertain period of time. So students or anybody who exist on this earth need to learn about money and financial affairs.

Alan Greenspan strongly remarked once, “The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.” The academic institutes are well aware of the fact that there is a lack of financial literacy and still they don’t make a point to educate the students. Robert Kiyosaki says that it is a part of conspiracy theory to not teach students about the financial matter. That is why the schools and colleges don’t give financial education and instead bore the students with irrelevant subject topics, which won’t be utilized by students in the real world.

Schools and colleges don’t teach the students about good debts and bad debts, assets and liabilities, cash-in and cash-out, business and investment, enterprising and power of ideas, tax systems and capital gains, real estates and insider trades etc. and these are important in day to day life. Many people fall victim to the banking systems through credit card defaults and the habit of over spending their earnings. Many students don’t know the difference between earned income and passive income, part -time job and full time jobs that they end up in the rat race for the rest of their lives.

If the students and people lack the basic financial education, then they can’t lead a good and successful happy life because money plays a vital role in providing a great lifestyle for people. So one way to learn financial education is to read books by one self or attend some seminars so that the most essential aspects of financial literacy could be acquired and used to have abundance. I don’t like to blame the schools and colleges for not giving the financial literacy to the students, I am concerned about the system which is designed to benefit a few rich people only.

Learn as much as you can about money and how it is made out of thin air. If you acquire financial literacy, then you can be free and live in happiness, peace and health. There is an advantage if you have acquired financial education from your parents who already know many things about money and its investments. The rich people teach their children about money because they know the schools and colleges are not designed to impart financial literacy. Therefore, it is good to seek financial information to liberate oneself from the rat race. You must free yourself by having a financial literacy.

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Academic Education Fails To Teach People!

” I have been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.” Neil Gaiman, American Novelist, Journalist, Screenwritter, Children’s author. comic writer.

There is not even a slight doubt today about academic education, which has failed to teach people many valuable and important aspects of life. What academic education programmes teach are irrelevant to real life experiences and as a result the youngsters don’t cultivate anything good and worthwhile to appreciate. Academic education has kept people ignorant and less smart about things that actually matter a lot. So why not teach something that are closer to human hearts and pertain to human life? This is a big question to answer.

Albert Einstein said, ” I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” I think this should be the mode of teaching young people at schools and colleges. The bookish knowledge is not relevant today because it is not updated on time. B.F. Skinner said, “We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” Today youngsters don’t read books because they haven’t learned how to read books that could determine their future course of direction. It is important to read books because it opens up the mind for new ideas that could be valuable to the society and the country or world.

Robert M. Hutchins rightly said, ” It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.” Are we really teaching people to think independently so that they can figure out ways to solve some critical issues of life and society? People are getting only academic education to find jobs and a security for life. There is not more than this. Almost all people value academic education more than the life education, which teaches how to love, how to be polite, how to respect, how to forgive, how to understand, how to win, how to be successful through good ways, how to be a good father and a mother, how to be a good citizen, how to serve the community, how to treat the criminals, how to help the old, sick and many other valuable things. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.” — Goethe

Children spend a greater part of their lives in schools and colleges yet they fail to learn the most essential things of life. Is it a crime against the children perpetrated the government and the world? Why should children be ignored and not taught about the fundamental issues of life? For instance, I see many youngsters after eating snacks or smoking cigarettes, they just throw them on the road without much care and concern. They don’t feel the privilege to put them into the trash cans. It is heartening to see how these young people will consider and value the little things of life? They seem to be studying in the best schools and colleges but they don’t learn where to smoke or not to smoke. They never ask out of courtesy whether their smoking is causing inconvenience or not. They don’t mind about others’ health. This is a tragic story today. This is one example and there are many examples which require greater attention.

Marva Collins commented once, “Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”  Education system must teach children important things to live, to respect, to be honest and to be self-confident. But these children are brainwashed with the ideas of getting safe and secure jobs and working for others. May be it is essential for survival but it is not the big deal for life. Becoming a worthwhile, well-natured person is more important than merely pursuing academic education.

John Gardner strongly pointed out this: “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” In other words, children are not receiving what is essential for life and for themselves. So it is better that parents should realize what education they are providing their children. Children by themselves won’t know many things but under some supervision, children can easily learn to love, learn to work and respect. Education must involve students in learning together. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin.

In my opinion, children must be taught to be watchful about their thoughts, words, actions, habits, character and then destiny. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Children are failing to be who they are and what they are. We must actually keep them as they are originally created from the womb.

“A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank…but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child.” — Forest Witchcraft

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Imagination Is The Real Education!

“Imagination rules the world.” Napoleon Bonaparte

George Bernard Shaw said, ” You see things and say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and I say “Why not?” Imagination is the king and the ruler of whole world. It is the real education that children must have by all cost. The academic education may not encourage the students and the parents on the other hand may feel that fantasies will never put bread on the table, but they are all wrong about imagination. Imagination is creative and powerful. It has the power to liberate the entire humanity and take us to the outer space.

There are so many people who have used imagination to liberate themselves. J.K. Rowling is a real time example  and she says, “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. “ She advocates that the students must be encouraged to use their imagination more than the academic qualification. There is greatness, success, richness, abundance, freedom, peace and love in imagination provided that all children learn to imagine and fantasize things that others consider vague and unreal.

The images obtained through imagination will have a practical application later in life as you go through your daily living. So don’t snub your imaginative mind to explore and expand.  Albert Einstein too considered imagination as more important than the acquired knowledge. Acquired knowledge becomes obsolete while imagination updates the fresh and new information on the spot. Imagination gives timely information and it is reliable.

All kinds of inventions, innovation and technological advancements are the results of pure imagination. The scientists, film makers, actors, entrepreneurs and many others applied imagination to change things and establish new systems. It is good if you engage yourself in imagination morning an evening. There is a great possibility hidden within you and it can be disclosed to you only when you learn to use your imagination. Imagination has no boundary, no colour and no bias. It goes everywhere because it can penetrate all spheres and dimensions.

Use your imagination to attract health, wealth, happiness, freedom and peace. All that you want to accomplish in life is within your imagination and apply it to have them. Imagination helps to overcome failures, setbacks, mistakes and discouragement. Imagination can also set you free if you are sick and suffering from diseases. It is better that children must be taught to imagine. Children must be educated through imagination for it is powerful and creative.

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Education Must Nourish Children’s Originality!

Children are born with all qualities and they are not under any control of sin. They are spotless and genuine. They are a complete gift from God. They are not twisted. The sad part is that parents, guardians, relations, peers, society, world, circumstances, churches, temples and educational institutes have inflicted sin, shame and guilt on innocent children. The religion has proposed through its teaching again and again that we humans are imperfect and that we need perfection with blessings from God. It is not that we need the blessing rather we are the blessings to ourselves and others.

I realized this truth when our son Myron was conceived and we had to go for pregnancy test. I knew for sure our child had all the requirements needed for its development. The small amount of liquid meeting each other for the first time had all it takes to form a human baby. There was no lacking in its embryo. Our son is born excellent and great and he is marvellous to show all his talents, skills and abilities. I don’t think he lacks anything. I only fear if we as parents would be able to keep his originality intact and if his originality is not influenced he will outshine in the whole world. We in the world condition the children and we control them by our conventional rules and laws.

All the external  influences that children receive while growing up are like aliens to children. The children begin to get conditioned by the adult talks, fights, likes and dislikes. The children when they are small have no choice except that they can cry or laugh. Everything is fed by the adults. If the adults are educated and respect the children’s orginality, the children will grow with accurate philosophy, thoughts, beliefs and attitude. If parents themselves have no idea how they may be conditioning their children, then children will be conditioned, programmed and converted into a robotic machine.

Education must nourish and maintain the originality but it destroys the original copy and tries to duplicate them. Children become duplicate product and not original. You know what is more valuable, duplicate or original copy? In my opinion, parents must provide the platforms for their children to grow origianally without much influences. Children must be encouraged to pursue their independent desires and beliefs so that they will be happier and stronger.

Are you children getting education that nourishes the originality or creates a duplicate? Choose the one that you value and the children value. Parents have their wishes and dreams. The parents want their children to become doctors, engineers, and marry certain person they like and approve. There is less freedom of thinking and deciding. Everything is decided and thought by elders just because the youngsters will make mistakes. The elders don’t allow the children to make mistakes. I guess they should allow them because that is how they learn to strengthen their hearts and minds.

So, it is commendable if the parents, teachers  and guardians encourage students to keep their origianlity, to show origianlity and to value their hobbies, interests and desires. I am sure in the future, children will not be judged by their report cards but by keeping the originality and pursuing them till its completion. Pursue the originality because that is what you are and you can’t be another.

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True Education Enlightens People!

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; mastering self needs strength.” Lao Tzu

Education is important because it enlightens people; it gives spiritual or intellectual insights. Education therefore must give information or instruct people about life, intelligence and spirituality. Spirituality is never a religion, instead spirituality a philosophy of one’s life, one’s lifestyle. True education will always enlighten people and it never hurts anybody or blames anyone for any misunderstanding or failures.

Education never creates any doubts in the minds of people rather it frees the doubts by enlightening the human mind. I know for sure that academic education instills fear, doubts, uncertainty and impossibilities. The beauty of education is supposed to be enlightening people with spiritual and intellectual insights.

Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and many other great people had a deep sense of spirituality and intellectual capacities. They never doubted or felt uncomfortable about anything. Of course, they were challenged with their beliefs. For instance, when Mahatma Gandhi decided to fight for India’s freedom through non-violence, many others didn’t approve his ideas but unmoved and less perturbed, he moved ahead in spite of huge opposition. Mother Teresa, was another spiritually or intellectually enlightened woman, she never wavered about serving people. She loved them truly because she had been enlightened.

If you look at from business perspective in the corporate world, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Dhirubai Ambani and many other successful businessmen and women were too spiritually and intellectually enlightened to do something. They were so enlightened that their passion and love became clear and they didn’t wait long to start off their journey to build fortunes. So education should be enlightening the students to do something good for the humanity. Many schools and colleges instruct students to be employees rather than be spiritually and intellectually job creators.

I believe that today we need or what our children need is the enlightening. They need to be enlightened spiritually and intellectually. They don’t need to be instructed to be only employees. We need to teach the children to find their passion and love through enlightenment. Just like others who found their passion and love after being enlightened, we can help build the young people to be pioneers in this new world.

Buddha said, “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” Yes, we can live a better and satisfied life if we are truly enlightened spiritually and intellectually.

Allow yourself to be enlightened and instructed by the non-academic system which is very close to real life and experiences. I am sure in the years to come there will be many enlightened scientists, leaders, teachers, businessmen, parents and citizens all over the world who will take this new generation to a great height of human civilization. Let’s be enlightened and be civilized as per the new century.

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Academic Education Keeps People Ignorant!

The academic education is a part of greater conspiracy and its main purpose is to keep the masses ignorant. The academic books and lessons don’t teach about the important things that are required in life. The academic education makes the subjects so difficult that it takes the interests away from the students. It makes the students bored and occupied.

Schools and colleges don’t educate students about financial matters. They teach accountancy and it is about how to manage others’ money. It is about how to work for others for a payment. In real life people get messed up with financial problems and die with those unresolved problems. How can schools and colleges teach from the perspective of vested-interest rather than the students? Students must be taught financial education, how to manage their portfolios and invest them.

There is no way for large number of students to get financial education because their parents don’t know themselves. They are educated academically but the academic education has made them ignorant and dependent. If people are dependent they don’t feel confident and courageous and if they don’t feel confident they look for outside help and you know who comes for help, the banks. The banks play games in view of winning and what benefits them. They don’t bother whether it is good for people or not.

It proves that academic education doesn’t necessarily teach people to be educated in terms of life but rather what doesn’t make sense. The schools and colleges don’t teach students how to become rich. They just teach them to qualify to get the best available jobs in the world. But you know by now that those who work of salaried income, they are modern slaves labouring so hard but get nothing much in life.

I am not saying that academic education is not important and it doesn’t educate people. My point here is that academic education makes people ignorant, less confident and fearful. It doesn’t take away the fear, the negativity, the racism, the wars, poverty and sickness. It is only increasing day by day though we have prestigious universities all over the world. Instead of helping people it is creating problems; instead of freeing them, it is enslaving people.

So the best thing would be to be free, confident and courageous so that people could be life educated and live in freedom, peace, knowledge and healthy civilized world. The highly educated people are the less civilized human beings on this earth because they have kept the masses ignorant, dependent, fearful and enslaved.

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Non- Academic Education Strengthens People!

“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.” Abraham Lincoln

There are so many examples and ideas about education. People get educated because they keep learning. Those who continue to learn receive a great degree of human education. Allow yourself to strengthen you. You must be enabled to perform any task that life demands from you in order to make a wonderful lifestyle.

Education opens your mind, broadens your mind, inspires your mind and strengthens you as nothing else can. However the education that I am referring is the non-academic education. Non academic education touches people’s hearts and moves the spirit to accomplish greater things in life. I am sure people who educate themselves by reading books, listening to audio programs etc. do a favour to themselves; they strengthen themselves.

Nelson Mandela beautifully said once, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Actually what he referred to is the non-academic education that uplifts people and provides them confidence, energy and guidance to live a worthy life making the world a better progressive world for everyone.

Another great man who understood what education can do is Martin Luther King Jr.. He said, “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.” Yes, education must inspire and strengthen you to lead a normal life because if it doesn’t strengthen, then there is no positive point, no goodness.

Let non-academic education strengthen you and allow it to take control of your life to shape your future bright and shining. I am sure if you adopt non-academic education, it will surely strengthen you. So be ready and willing to educate yourself as much as you can.

“Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” – G. M. Trevelyan

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