— and What Hakim Sahib Teaches Differently
In India, education has long been seen as the ladder to a better life — a secure job, a stable income, a respectable identity. But somewhere, between marksheets and syllabi, we have quietly lost sight of what education was meant to be: the unfolding of a human being.
Today, India’s classrooms are filled with children learning how to pass, but not necessarily how to live.
And that — as Hakim Sahib often says — is the real tragedy of modern learning.
🌱 The Progress: Quantity Without Quality
To be fair, India has come a long way.
Almost every child now has access to primary schooling. The Right to Education Act made learning a fundamental right.
Digital initiatives like DIKSHA and PM eVIDYA are reaching remote corners.
In numbers, India is winning.
But education is not a race of numbers — it’s a journey of hearts and minds.
When we measure success only through exam results, we confuse literacy with learning, and qualification with cultivation.
We may fill schools, but we are leaving souls empty.
⚖️ The Problem: The System Teaches Memory, Not Meaning
Our classrooms are designed for obedience, not originality.
Children learn to repeat what’s written, not to question what’s wrong.
Teachers rush through chapters; students chase marks; parents chase certificates.
Everyone is running, but few know why.
The result?
We produce engineers who fear experimentation, managers who avoid moral choices, and citizens who read but do not reflect.
Knowledge has become a tool for earning, not a path for understanding.
As the Qur’an reminds us,
“Are those who know equal to those who do not know?”
(Surah Az-Zumar, 39:9)
But knowing, in its true sense, is not memorizing — it is awakening.
🎭 The Missing Soul: Where Are the Human Beings?
Education was never meant to create employees.
It was meant to create humans — conscious, courageous, and compassionate.
Yet, schools rarely teach patience, empathy, or humility.
Moral education has become a formality, not a foundation.
A child may know Newton’s laws but not the laws of kindness;
may calculate profit but never learn generosity.
And so, we raise smart minds — but restless souls.
💔 The Divide: Two Indias, Two Futures
Walk into a government school in a village and a private school in a city — and you’ll see two Indias.
In one, the teacher struggles with a broken blackboard; in another, children have tablets and air-conditioning.
This isn’t just an economic divide.
It’s a philosophical divide — between survival and self-actualization.
When education becomes a privilege, wisdom becomes rare.
🌍 The Global Perspective: The World Teaches Differently
In places like Finland or Japan, education begins with wonder.
Children are taught how to question, collaborate, and care.
They learn to see themselves as part of creation, not just competitors in it.
India’s NEP 2020 gestures in this dire
ction — emphasizing critical thinking, creativity, and holistic growth.
But implementation remains tangled in bureaucracy.
Policies change; classrooms remain the same.
🕊️ The Philosophy: What Education Should Be
Hakim Sahib often says,
“The purpose of education is not to make a living — it is to make life meaningful.”
He does not send his children to any school.
He teaches them himself — through life.
He teaches them to plant a seed and watch it grow, to fix a broken tool with their own hands, to lead others with humility and courage.
Their classroom is the world itself.
Their curriculum: Faith, Responsibility, and Leadership.
One day, when someone asked Hakim Sahib,
“Why don’t you enroll your children in school?”
He smiled and said:
“Because I am not raising employees; I am raising leaders — leaders who know themselves before they lead others.”
To him, every child is a trust (Amanah) from Allah — and to teach them is not a duty but an act of devotion.
🌿 The Way Forward
Perhaps the time has come to rethink education — not as a system to fit into, but a soul to return to.
A child must learn not just what to think, but why to think;
not just how to earn, but how to live.
Let them study science, but also silence.
Let them build machines, but also character.
Let them master technology, but never forget humility.
✨ In the End
The real measure of education is not in grades or jobs,
but in the grace with which one walks through life.
If we can raise a generation that can think deeply, feel sincerely, act justly, and submit humbly to the truth —
then, and only then, will we have truly educated our children.
Until then, we are only teaching them lessons — not life.
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