The Five Dimensions of
Education
- Freedom from the Past by
Osho
Brief Summary:
According to Osho, modern
education is insignificant, incomplete and insufficient because it is based on
competition. In fact, competition is always harmful because it creates enmity,
dissatisfaction, indifference and conflict as well. He says that competition is
violent and creates unloving people. Their whole effort is to be the achievers
of name, fame and ambitions. So, that destroys their joys and friendliness, and
it seems that everybody fights against the whole world. He claims that present
education system is goal oriented, i.e., to pass exams, which has made the
future important and present insignificant, fearful and unproductive. Examination
that comes after one or two years has been important than learning. So, it has sacrificed the present for the
future and created a sense of emptiness in life. Similarly, examination brings
the feeling of inferiority in a student if he/she fails and the feeling of
superiority if he/she passes. So, he states that there should not be any kind
of examinations as the part of education. But there should be every hour
observations by teachers, and teachers’ remarks throughout the year should
decide whether students move further or remain a little longer in the same
class. Nobody fails and nobody passes. It is just that a few students are
speedy and a few are a little bit lazy. Concluding on this subject, he says
that nobody is inferior and superior. The truth is that one is just oneself and
incomparable to others. Talking about the present role of teachers, he notes
that teachers had a significant role in the past, but now the situation has
been different due to explosion of knowledge, new facts, new discoveries, etc.
Now, the problem is that teachers go on repeating what they were taught so many
years ago. He claims that they are out of date and also making their students
out of date, so they have no place. In this context, he asserts that teachers
should be simple guides, and teaching should not be done in the old-fashioned
way because television can teach students in a far better way. Taking about television
as the most alive part, he mentions that if we can see something, there is no
need to memorize it, but if we listen to something or someone, we have to
memorize it. So, he suggests teachers to be only guides who should show their
students right path and make them aware of the latest knowledge. With these
thought, he divides education into five dimensions:
- Informative/Language
- Inquiry of scientific subjects
- Art of living
- Art and creativity
- Art of dying
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