…generally the ones with the least amount of formal education. Is there some inverse relationship there - the greater your formal education, generally speaking, the less advanced your social/kindness skills.
Generally, the nicest people i have met, the most humble, the most generous, the most thoughtful, the most articulate, the most sensible, are the ones with the least formal education. It’s like - once you enter the corridors of an advanced educational institution, your brain becomes warped and you lose your humanity. Gross exaggeration? Yes. But i have underlined the word general three times so don’t jump down my throat
Every time i meet wonderful people and, usually, they are not formally educated. Doesn’t matter which culture. IMHO it applies in every society. But they are people whose loss would make this world a far poorer place. Must be some inverse relationship somewhere.
oh no, I would disagree. From what I have seen, those lacking in education have an average of 6.5 kids, 2.5 wives( whom they beat religiously everyday) and 0.0 class. I have yet to meet a single decent person from that stratum of society. It's not surprising though..education is supposed to enlighten your mind..and the lack of it leaves them confused with a lot of fooked up notions.
Not that all of the educated ones aren't like that. Few don't change no matter what.
My naani's fav saying is "The educated can be fools, and fools can be educated". Nadia I think it all depends on the person. Being nice comes from how we are raised, and what we are taught.
Take high school for example. Kids think that in order to be part of the popular students , they have to be full of themselves and not care about those "below" them. I saw this when I was back in high school, and I see it everyday now that Im teaching. Its very hard for a person to be "nice/different" and be "popular". We do have middle grounders now.And I think as people move on to post secondary institutions, they do improve.It's less about the "groups' popularity" and more about the individual. I dont know why, but people who take the time to be nice - are looked down upon among youngsters. However, it all boils down to the values that have been instilled in us by those around us.
Formal education doesnt always teach us how to be nice people, usually it teaches us how to get ahead in life. The way we treat others is usually taught by parents,friends and such.
Nadia, i agree with MQ and Code Red above: it all depends on your tarbiyat. I have seen extremely humble people with a lot of degrees and you could never tell they were so educated or had a high social background. At the same time, I have seen not-so-educated people with barely high school education, who are so kind and leave an impression on you , that you cannot forget. Education has nothing to do with manners, kindness and being humble yaar.
jin kay paas aur kuch hota hee nahee dikhanay kay liyay, i have usually seen those flashing their education around. they eat, drink and sleep their education and create barriers around which nobody can see how hollow they really are.
and in any case, education is mostly all abt learinig abt other peopl'es acheivements and thoughts, so expecting much sensibiilty of out of the formally educated lot is quite pointless i think.
i get a degree in engineering, so i become a good engineer, not necessarily a good human....
and perhaps one reason is that most educated people, these days, have never read anything beyond their own curriculum and have probably never interacted with intellectuals outside their field of study....
and humanitarian education comes throuh experience and good moral teachings that r almost always inherited from parents....
Education is part of life; it should be included in all the religions. If you are not, you end up in planet muscle. If you hire a guy without education, its like monkey Body guard.
It all depends on how you define “Education”. If “Education” means getting degrees then YES your observation is right. But I think Education is more than that. One can not have Degree but still be educated because experiences of life itself is an education. And may be those people have lerant the lesson of life very well which is making them more modest.
Just 2 cents.
