What is the use of learning? 

Dear Sir

I keep watching and listening to your videos. I am a homemaker, aged 53 years. All my duties are completed and am retired from work too. When I come to know about your varied educational initiatives, I wonder if these learning exercises are of any use to people like me.

Raji Krishnasamy

Dear Raji

There is a basic principle in our classes. Here learning is not mere training. It is to provide education. Training is for fulfilling a purpose or to perform a task. But education is just for the sake of educating ourselves.

There is not a single moment in our life where we are not learning. We keep learning at all ages. Everyone included. But it is unstructured and scattered learning. Hence it stays useless. Sometimes harmful too. Hence our initiative is to provide structured and useful education.

The benefit of education is the joy of learning that we derive during the process. It makes life meaningful. Education makes the learner healthy, both physically and mentally. The personality of the learner develops which leads him to live a better life.

Another celebration associated with good education is learning with others which in turn creates a good circle for us. That happiness is essential for us at any age.

Also, if we realise that we have learnt significantly, we might want to implement the learning. We would create activities around it. The motivation to teach our learning to others would also take shape.

Education is the only way to happiness. Some people have decided not to be happy. Everyone else needs to learn.

Jeyamohan

Translated by Geeta Sentilkumar

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