raptorsfan said:
In todays society educated people are respected. I will give you an example.
In my workplace, everyone is friends with this one staff member and they respect him because he has an MBA.
I also want to be respected like that and that is why I am also working towards my MBA. A man earns respect with education. Its not about making $5000/day and cheating people. This has nothing to do with education. Zardari is not educated at all and he is making tons of money. We need education for proper upbringing of our kids in the future. We don't want them to get misguided. If we have a proper education then our kids will learn proper mannerism (tehzeeb) and turn out right. If the parent is jahil then the kid will be misguided and confused about the world outside.
I will give you an example. My wife's khala was married at the age of 16 and remained uneducated. She had children at an early age. The oldest daughter didn't get proper upbringing and was always told what to do. Kinda like, "yeh karo, wo karo". In schools, she was taught something else. She was confused and got involved in a few wrong things.
That is the difference between education and jahalat.
brother, manners and tehzeeb everyone learns, its a matter of utilizing these skills/virtues... even educated ppl act like donkeys a lot of the times, a person with an MBA can be a tool, education teaches you to be civil and morally correct. No way am i claiming that education is not important or one should not attain it. However, respect is garnered in society in a thousand ways. Especially in now a days society, respect itself comes in different shapes and forms... it all depends on whom you want to respect you. Educated does not only necessarily mean going through books and schools, there are tons of ways to get/become educated.
A wealthy man sends his son/daughter to high end educational outlets, more to satisfy his ego, than to educate his child. Then at times he pushes/advances that undeserving child through under the table deals or hidden deals.
A middle class man sends his son/daughter to low end educational outlets, just to educate them. Often he sweats out blood doing so, and often he cuts some corners to do so.
A poor man just educates his son/daughter the virtues, they may not know the high end lingo/terminology, but will iterate the same things to you basically meaning the same.
Then there are dumb/lazy ppl, these no matter how much you educate they will remain constant.
Jahalat is when one knows that something is wrong, and they still go ahead and do it. Usually it comes from those that are educated if you know what i mean.
For example, a farmer will teach/educate his son about agriculture and how to take care of the crops... you could go and read books about it at school, but that farmer's son will be much better than you at it at the end of the day.
btw in today's society even if a donkey has a million bucks ppl will line up to show respect to him, not a guy with an MBA and who is jobless... today's society is all about money... unfortunately...
that's not to say i dont see where you are trying to come from, but it is a complex or grey area to cover/look at, and usually all and everyone looks at it in their own context...
