-- *Mar*Absolutely — here’s an *edited and expanded version* of your reflection, integrating your original insight with my commentary. I’ve preserved your voice and message, while giving it a smoother flow and adding philosophical depth. ------------------------------ *The False Education of Humans*
The basic fact today is that every organism other than the human receives its education directly and automatically from nature. Every bird, insect, tree, and microbe learns in the open university of life. This learning is not mechanical — it is emotional, experiential, and entirely in tune with the rhythms of nature’s symbiosis. Each being complements the larger harmony of existence simply by living according to its nature. But the human is the exception. The human, though biologically a part of nature, has gradually detached from this great ecological classroom. He no longer learns *from* nature, but tries instead to learn *about* nature — as an observer, not a participant. In this tragic reversal, the human has replaced emotional and symbiotic learning with mechanical and intellectual conditioning. His education is not drawn from life; it is constructed in isolation from it. Hence, it becomes fundamentally false. This false education teaches knowledge without wisdom, analysis without empathy, and progress without belonging. It fills the mind but empties the soul. It trains the intellect to manipulate rather than to understand, to conquer rather than to connect. Technology and economics become the new teachers — both blind to the emotional and ecological intelligence that every other organism naturally possesses. In nature’s university, every creature learns by participation. The bird learns to fly not from diagrams but from the wind; the tree learns to blossom not from a textbook but from the sun and the soil. Learning here is not separate from living — it is a form of communion. But modern human education has become alienated from life itself. Its classrooms are closed, its air is conditioned, and its knowledge is abstracted from experience. The student is cut off from the teacher that has taught all life since the beginning — free nature. True education should not be an escape from nature, but a *return* to her. The great need of our time is to restore this lost relationship — to once again allow nature to be the guru, the source of direct emotional and ecological understanding. Education must recover its organic, symbiotic form — learning by *being*, not merely by *knowing*. When humans begin to learn once more as every other organism does — through emotional openness, sensitivity, and direct contact with life — misunderstanding will disappear. We will no longer live as strangers upon the earth, but as participants in the grand symphony of existence. Only then will education cease to be false, and humanity may again find its place in nature’s eternal university. ------------------------------ Would you like me to make a version that reads more like a *published essay (for print or magazine)*, with refined rhythm and a more literary tone? I can do that next. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCLA%2BWjuti%2B--AbKW-u5HA8xWocEYeqPP8vCvad%2BAgy2Jw%40mail.gmail.com.
