There are innumerous topics a school teaches, subjects a child can pick and even kids can become programming wizards sitting at home now. But how many schools or teachers are ready to teach a kid how to live? What is required in this country to be a responsible citizen? Can we have one such school or college which teaches how to behave in a community?, how to be a socially responsible citizen?, how to love and respect all alike? And above all without mixing religion to it! Such a system can add value to the future generations to make them less money minded but more people minded. Nothing can be undone now and we are a result of factory ready workhorse as a by product of industrial revolution and world war led education system.
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” - Voltaire The simple answer to who needs God is “everyone”. Why we need God could be different. As many scholars and philosophers had taught us over last few generations. Religion and belief had played a key role in creating societies and civilisations. Without religion or a common thread of belief system or culture for that matter, we humans cannot be organised and disciplined. I do agree there will be always those outliers who could manage without a system. What happens without a system is well understood assuming most of my readers are living in countries which has an order. Theories on how it all started could be that alien as aliens themselves would feel less alien. Is it a culture that we often label as religion? Is it common practices? Is it a doctrine and set of rules that makes up a religion? Is it God’s words translated by other humans before us that constitutes a religion? It could be all of these and ...
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