When Education Becomes a Disability

A man had taken his illiterate father on a retreat, where they were taught how to commune with nature and generally be at peace with the world. In the evening each family put up their tent and after a bonfire dinner went to bed. But in the middle of the night, the old man woke up his son and said," son, look up and tell me what you see"
To which his son replied, " the sky father, just the sky "
"And what does this tell you ",persisted the old man
Quite exasperated,thinking the father chose a wrong time to start his communion with nature replied, " well ", he began, " It tells me that there's a full moon today, the stars are not shining as brightly as usual and that we should always thank God for nature and life".
"You're very wrong", his father said," what this tells us is simply that we've been robbed and we better make use of the full moon to find out who did ".
Common sense is quite simple but we complicate it most times. With the influx of universities and the high demand for literacy, enlightenment has gone into extinction. You'd think that Education will make people more enlightened but most times, it just gives them an inflated opinion about themselves. Someone had said to me once," I don't like Chinua Achebe, he doesn't use big grammar".
Education has nothing to do with the amount of obscure and heavy sounding words an individual uses, in fact, only a well educated person could speak and write in such clear language so that anybody can understand.
We struggle so hard to get an education that we forget most times to get educated. Education shows in how you dress, what you say, how you say what you say, and where you say what you say. Explaining rocket science to a market woman will sadly get you the same impact if you'd had the conversation with a stone.
In the midst of your education, get knowledge....... because at the end of the day when all chips are down, your knowledge alone will save you.