Education and LIfe
Education and life
Cl. Mario D’Couto SDB
A lot of our education has been based on Greek philosophy and a lot of our Christian teachings have also been taken from the Greek philosophers. We see this in the case of Augustine and Aquinas who have based their philosophies on Plato and Aristotle respectively, beside all other Christian thinkers. What strikes me from Greek education is the fact that whatever was connected to life was considered as education. Infact education was about learning how to cope with life. Sadly, today things are different. True, there is no doubt that education has taught us how to cope with life, but it is about how to make more money. The postmodern human being seeks in terms of results and perhaps that is the reason why today we fail to see the bigger picture. We are caught up with small things. This could also explain why in the past, people were content with the little they had while today, everything has become a ‘rat-race’.
I think this is something we can learn from the Greeks – to be content with what we have and to always see the bigger picture in life.