FOCUS ON MONEY/MARKS IS INCREASING AGGRESSION

“Education is needed to be peaceful, optimistic and happy. The goal of all education is to help children find happiness in life. Education is not imparted just for being successful or earning money to support responsibilities. Education is given so that children learn to think and reason by using their brains more than their bodies, as distinguished from animals”








Education is encouraged in today’s world for as many as can be reached by the literate society but peace and happiness are not as accredited. If you can afford it, have conducive family circumstances or are supported by the government, you do not opt to not get educated but you often take the choice to remain angry and become violent as education is supposed to get you money and acknowledgement.

In today’s world, money is considered as the measure of approval and success even if the process of earning money makes you negative. Anything that is paid for by money is supposed to be considered as motivational by the majority of people who identify happiness with consumable items and aim for satisfaction through buying cars, mobiles, jewels and clothes. However, happiness does not increase by buying products as much as it does not increase by playing with toys as children.

The factors which increase inner happiness are sidelined in the race for earning money which creates a society which is constantly complaining of unhappiness, depressions, diseases and misfortunes; only because the focus of thinking is on the negative aspects of evolution and creating short term satisfaction while ignoring the needs for peace and harmony.

This lop-sided focus of thinking towards using money as the measure of success arises from childhood, where success is measured by getting marks which gets transferred to earning money in adulthood.

There is much less attention given to feeling happy while working in childhood or feeling positive while earning money in adulthood. However, happiness is a result of accumulation of positive feelings which release positive hormones in the body, which, subsequently, create satisfaction in the soul.

In contrast with the presumption that accredited success automatically leads to happiness; the feelings of happiness, contentment, joy & excitement which arise during working in any activity are the key ingredients for the continuation of satisfaction after the job is done.

The outcome of any activity is felt as positive if the feelings being pursued during the act are more positive than negative, on an average. If, during work, compromise is more than satisfaction, people are bound to feel depressed as negative hormones will increase more than positive hormones in the body.

Though there are several good effects of the present education system, there is negligible attention given to creation of positive feelings which would lead to evolution of consciousness towards a more peaceful world. The inadequate method of measurement of happiness by measuring success as good marks is spreading negative thinking by its excessive focus on quantitative development over development of qualitative understanding that overtime, leads to positive thinking in human consciousness.

With increasing emptiness in hearts and violence in the world, there is an urgent need to minimize the negativity arising as side effect of the enforcement of education; for accentuating the positive benefits.

For further reading, please refer to the book SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATION ( Redefine Success with rising peace, optimism and happiness )

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