There are some things that
it is hard to understand why it is happening. Things that you thought are so obvious
yet ignorance prevail over maturity. I am a teacher. However, having a hard
time making kids understand simple things is more acceptable than teaching grownups
the same. What supposed to be is the problem? The answer is you! Yes you! Confronting
people over their mistakes is such a dilemma. Making them understand the understandable
is an insult in their being. They find it difficult to comprehend especially if
the one saying it to felt superior it’s because of the level of education they
have attained over you. Education is such a complex word. So broad that even
intelligent ones can’t define it exactly and how broad is the scope of its significance.
Scientist, politicians,
doctors and even teachers, how wide is the scope of their education? How can
they define education? What is the limit of this word? How are we going to
level ourselves with this word? If you are a teacher, is your education limits
only on the strategies and the theories of teaching? If you are in politics, is
your education limits only in the practice and
theory of influencing people, law and governance? If you are a scientist,
is your education focused only on performing research toward a more
comprehensive understanding of nature, including physical, mathematical and social realms? Are the
limits of one’s education only based on the title they have attained? How about
those things remain in the gap of all those mentioned title? Values, it’s all
that missing. Values toward everything that surrounds us. Who cares if you are
a doctor if you’re holding a double barrel shotgun pointed towards a lion
inside of a reserve? Who cares if you are a teacher if you don’t instil care
about everything in the environment? Who cares if you are a scientist if your slaughter
hundreds of animals just for the sake of experiment? And who cares if you are a
politician that you allow mining for the sake of employment rather than
thinking for the welfare of the nature and the trouble it might cause in the
health of those who live within the vicinity?
Everything is
around us. Employment, food, home, hope, and even education, is there. The devastation
we caused to our planet can still be fixed. The desolation is on the rush now. It
spreads fast. Because we let other people to continue doing what they are doing
right now. How much oxygen can you still breathe? How many birds can you still
see? Elephants, lions rhino, sharks. How many are there still left? If this all
stops now, there’s hope. All that’s endangered can still be saved. All that’s
sinking can still be afloat. All that’s melting can still be freezed. Because all
that’s gone cannot be saved anymore. Don’t wait for it to be all gone extinct. Because
we can’t bring it back what’s already
gone. We can still make our planet a better place to live.
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