Sunday, December 2, 2007

Knowledge, power and Education.

To me knowledge, power and education are interred - related. These three words have different denotations and connotations as well as they have signifier and signified meaning to understand. Knowledge means what we are learning everyday through our environment. But in a sense, education has different meanings. When we talk about knowledge we see we can achieve knowledge from everywhere and in every part of our life. Basically it doesn’t have any boundary but when we talk about education, it means it has some structures and it runs on a particular system. The word 'Power' really has very powerful meaning. The concept of power comes from our beliefs about power. Well it is very complicated to understand. If I ask a question toward myself 'What is power?' I don't have any specific answer. May be I will say, to me power is what I really believe that it is power or he is powerful. Power is our own construction and it is similar with the concept of reality. The definition of power is varying from person to person perception. Power for a political leader and power for a daily labor is totally different. Usually a person is become powerful for only those people who really think he or she is powerful. For example, father is more powerful in his house but when he is in his office his boss become more powerful than him. Every person is powerful in his or her own sector. Now come to the relation among knowledge, power and education. To me an educated person is not always knowledgeable and it is not mandatory to want to be knowledgeable you have to be educated. It is true sometimes education and knowledge increases our power but sometimes an unknowledgeable or illiterate people may become more powerful than others. In reality now a day’s people with money weapon etc become more powerful. I think that we define who should be powerful and who should be not. I do believe that if you have knowledge it must increase your mental or thinking power and we can ignore many things but we can’t ignore the knowledge of a man. Power is variable may be today’s power is not for tomorrow but the today’s your knowledge will increase your tomorrow’s knowledge as well as it can give us the higher prosperity in life.

1 comment:

briguy100 said...

Another thoughtful post where you ask some important and intriguing comments. I can only make one observation; when you consider the relationship between knowledge, power and eduction, consider the cost of ignorance.