Tuesday, 12 June 2012

The Risk of Education

Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created...'. Unlike "the Jews who seek after signs,and the Greeks who seek after 'wisdom', we preach a crucified Christ....". I hate poverty, and my greatest passion is to destroy it, and- like one Nobel laureate puts it-to send it to the museum. But in place of 'Jews' we have in the majority today, Capitalistic Religions which exalt money, and go by 'The customer is always right', preaching what members would like to hear. On the other hand , the 'Greeks' today are Dogmatic and Presumptuous Scientism which does not see a truth outside that which is reasoned and tested around its sphere; from these hails the source of all incarnated technologies which stifle our minds. A 'crucified Christ' is not easily come by.A crucified Christ is Eductainment. It is where creativity begins, and only a mind that is not crippled by the powers that be, as dictated by Capitalistic Religions or Dogmatic Scientism could arrive at lasting creativity, such that we can only reach by passing through 'The Road Less Traveled'. I don't like suffering,but there is no other way to arrive at education, only through discipline, dedication, integrity and hard work can a man be truly taught. That is what I believe stifles our society: corruption, lies,lawlessness,mediocrity and sin abide too much, and actual education, which is a journey of experience is just not deep enough, the powers that be, sooner or later, take over. When poverty abounds, few have the maturity to take the opportunity to arrive at truth. Yoruba says:'Eni ebi npa, kii gbo iwaasu', meanwhile, Yoruba also says again' Iya o je o , o loo gbon, ta ni teacher e?'.
 We nee to Re-imagine. Like Starcomms would say : 'We speak your language'. We just need to reinvent new ways to communicate to the present day youths, workers and leaders, in the language of this age. Everybody knows that, you'll say. But are we all not just powerless now? Who has succeeded in communicating the whole truth in the language of our times? While we confess our weakness and powerlessness,we should not stop trying and praying to the Holy Spirit, who alone can truly create and recreate. Recreation simply means, working and catching fun at the same time; but to arrive at this, we must be educated, and to be truly educated, we must pass through the sufferings of life.

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