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Education that develops self No one will probably question that education is like a compulsory nutrient that our body requires. However, this sounds a too simplified statement, because it is not properly exploring or explaining the basic question of why education is important to our survival. Is it because of economic reasons or else. We often talk of developments associated with education, but, isnt there a great difference between development and the development. I will call development, any kind of advancement we have achieved by an introduction of new technologies etc. This will cover all the areas where man has achieved quite advancement, for example, in medical sciences, astrology, electronics, automobiles, space technology etc. It surely is a development because more or less we have elevated the standard of our living; however, if this is achieved by unfair means or destruction, it questions the very nature of its actuality. And the advancement then becomes just development. To illustrate this scenario, I would quote an example from one of Indias so called developed states, Gujrat. A few recent articles published by Time magazine as well as the Brookings Institution on chief minister of the state, Narendra Modi, praised him for state's development. Time magazine, in its March 26 issue, published an article on Modi, with the heading: "Modi means business", along with a strap: "But can he lead India?". These top media agencies have to recalculate their claims, because, the development ought to answer the bloodbath in the Ghandian state, when the VHP-BJP blamed the Muslims in a locality of Godhra adjacent to the railway station. The violence that began after Modis meeting with the states top police officers saw more than 2,000 Muslims killed in hate violence in many parts of Gujarat. What is surprising is that, even the Indian courts of justice have completely failed to punish the people involved. Now, even after a decade, Special Investigation Team (SIT) has some extremely ailing statements to offer. It says, even if the Gujarat Chief Minister ordered his police officers to allow Hindu mobs to kill Muslims in 2002, it would not constitute an offence! Isnt this a joke on the justice system and its functionality in India and a question mark on the claims of development in the state and at the same it offers us an opportunity to review the education and development scenarios around us and ask a fundamental question, have we achieved what we targeted for? Well, the above example surely serves as a guide to understand a fundamental difference between development and the development and once we apply this to the rest of our claims, we will understand our achieved educational developments and human welfare. I call the development, a scenario when an overall development takes place, where one takes all people on-board and offers some of the best administrative and social systems of the world. This takes care of people of all races and is NOT biased towards a particular section of people. The advancement is not taking place on cost of peoples lives. Poor and rich are seen

equally from the same lens. There is no difference between formally educated and uneducated sections of people. To me, the very purpose of education is NOT just development, but, the development. To achieve that, we ought to differentiate the purpose of our education and employment. Once we understand the reason, our education will enlighten us to the path that will help this humanity to survive any kind of an uncertainty. And education will create employment, which may or may not offer great perks. The target should never be perks, but, the overall developments. I believe, it is ONLY education that can make its purpose apparent, and if that is not happening, we ought to redraw our education maps; otherwise, it will seduce us in the virtual world of developments, which will surely make hell out of our lives.