by Irrira Rikki

Created on: August 17, 2008   Last Updated: August 19, 2008

BLIND-FOLDS
Most of the impoverished, and war-torn do not need education as it is imposed today. They are mostly the victims of war, or forced into impoverished conditions. Just because they are seen as needing to be educated. Please? Give them half a chance and they could teach 'the world' a few lessons in education instead. Wars create their seeming lack of education because their victims halls of learning, from home, to universities, have been ravished.

If through other internal reasons, of their own war ravished states, they also find themselves more impoverished, it is no different. Who is 'the world' who is so superior in their own education to come into, what they themselves have sometimes played a big roll, in the breaking down of these unfortunate inferior lands? Must they have the grand roll of, Teacher of Education?

If we name European/Western Civilization as the Grand Masters of Degree: everything in some of these war-torn and impoverished peoples (who are still left to pick up the pieces,) are seen as some kind of uneducated fools. What an insult! If the education comes solely in the form of help for these people, bodily to survive and live; and spiritually to uplift them through the turmoil, it may ease their hearts. (I am not referring a take-over of religion, as most of them already have their own.)

You don't prey on the dying like vultures waiting for the great costs of a funeral. Or brake down their lives from homes, to institutions of any form, for real hope and economic education, with wars. Then fill your own coffers with the profits, economically speaking, by rebuilding them! Their own values of development were already there before the wars, before their worse state of becoming impoverished.

Haven't we learned yet the most paramount is not a question, but should be, education is required to prevent there being war-ravaged lands! Haven't we learned of things imposed, which lead to so many impoverished peoples? As well as what's paramount to aiding where true help is needed, is not an education foreign to others (which may be different to our own?} Between these two different educational statements lies an answer, many, (not all,) would rather avoid. Rather, than see themselves in the light of the very ones who needs a better understanding.

Why are there so many war-torn countries; or impoverished, displaced peoples, already educated in things they could teach us, the ignorant? It is one thing to help where help and compassion is needed. Quite another to think you build up the economical interests of the very people you or your country has been the perpetrators of their very war-torn, or impoverished, predicament! Too many walk with blind-folds, who call themselves, 'The Educated.'

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