ENLIGHTENMENT

ADELAIDA L. TORRES

Education makes the world. We are rational beings born into a rational world. We live we learn and we create. We are beings subjected to each and every single law about the universe we are beings of the law and of knowledge. We are subjected to the knowledge of what could be known and what should be known. We look at every single random thing and try to reason out or look at it as if it is quantifiable and form a rational essence out of it to suit the requisites of a normally functioning rational being. We are creatures not of the dark, but in the dark and going out of the dark.

Being born in the world one starts with the fundamentals knowledge and the essential information of the world we struggle to look around us and see the things which God has given to us to make the world a better place. We see a blank around us because we cannot see any sense on the things that makes up the world. We see as if we are in the light, until one instance you would realize and you would start to question if the world makes sense at all.

The torch is the symbol of light, for when Prometheus stole knowledge from the gods everything started to make sense, we began to understand what the world is all about we began to see that the world is not a wasteland neither it is an accident nor a stroke of chance. When we are being educated we struggle to live as rational beings we try to light up the darkness and to struggle out of the darkness not only to see, but to let others see that there is always an intelligent reason for everything. Education gives us a world, for there is no world in the darkness of ignorance. Only the light of education could give men a real world to live in. The world becomes a world of rational beings and a rational world for rational beings to rationalize in.

— oOo— The author is Master Teacher I at Remedios Elementary School