learning without thought is labour lost, thought without learning is perilious

Learning without thought is labour lost, thought without learning is perilous. Learning without thought is labour lost, As it can be seen in day to day life where people or student do rote learning without understanding. Imagine a classroom without any benches, which was constructed by a worker who usually construct houses. He no doubt learned the process of constructing but lacks thought. Due to which He couldn't understood the need for benches or blackboards.

In another turn, The thought without learning is perilous. This can be seen in the situation of women in Afghanistan. The people of Afghanistan are so blind in their religious book's understanding that they stopped reasoning in their life. So thought without learning become dangerous. Here thought is what is taken from the book and learning is the worst situation of the women. Here comes the questions that what is considered as thought and what is the meaning of learning. Thought is what people do by seeking inside and comes from previous knowledge, whereas learning is done through outer medium. It is done through learning from the life of others, books and teachers. At this point we need to understand how learning without thought is labour lost. When we focus only on learning we gain knowledge, information and data.

But to apply that knowledge or data one need the power of thinking. Thinking is the process by which one can arrange the information in order to make sense. This can be understood through the process of learning a language. Language consists of phonetics, rules, grammar and phonemes. But to make others understand what one is saying needs perfect arrangement of these. When we talk about culture or society, this also work in similar way like language. The perfect order is needed in the societal traits too to run it smoothly. In societies where learning is done without thought usually result in low development, less happiness and full of anger. On the opposite side when thought is done without learning, one could dive deeper in the negative thoughts about life and choices. This could lead to suicides or hurting themselves. This is evident from rising suicides among students and farmers. The students when think about their future without success in one examination or their parent's effort not yielding, makes them to take steps to end live.

What they lack in this is the learning of the past suicides. They need to learn the outcome of past suicides and the aftermath to understand the grim truth of suicides. similar is with farmers, who suicide due to one crop failure, what they need to learn is that every year is not same. Through Historical examples too the phenomenon of thought without learning can be understood. When Rajput rulers of Rajasthan were fighting with each other and one outsider king came and plundered the region and looted the temples. The Rajput rulers didn't learn from it continued their rivalries. Later when Mughals came to India they easily captured the region because the rajputs were not united. In fact it was one of the rajput ruler who invited Babur. In the contemporary world too, there are many examples where people have not learned from past and cultivate their thoughts only. This can be understood through rampant mining and industries using natural resources without learning the outcome of industrial revolution. Which led to the problems of arctic amplification, rising sea levels and uneven climate patterns.

So How can we synthesise both learning and thought. To answer this we need to take into considerations the teachings of great leaders. Like following the idea of B.R. Ambedkar in the form of constitutional morality. He not only talks about legal justice but social justice. We need to follow equality, fraternity and liberty to understand learning with thought. In addition to B.R. Ambedkar, the humanity need to follow, the path of Madhyama Marga by Lord Buddha, Trusteeship approach of Gandhi in which he talks about the natural resources and their use for societies, Dialectical progression of Hegel, Ideas of Habermas, and so on. We need to understand the aim of education as explained by Ravindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda. They explained that the aim of education is not only to gain knowledge but to learn how to apply that knowledge for betterment of the human civilisation. Through these we can synthesise both thought and learning. By synthesising the humanity can achieve many things in their lifetime. The problems of Global warming and climate change can be avoided. We can skip the banality of evil phenomenon as explained by Hanah Arendt. She explained that sometimes people subdue to the evil in the name of little benefits like corruption is one such example. Furthermore the society can avoid the colonialisation of lifeworld as explained by Habermas. We can avoid being anxious about anything. This was explained by Jonathan Haidt in his book "The anxious generation". When thought and learning coincides people stay away from procrastination and yield great results. To further on the benefits the nations can avoid conflicts in the international relations. The USA and Iran can peacefully run their country. India and Pakistan can live like brothers and problems of encroachment on others, agression toward neighbours and war can be avoided. To conclude. We need both learning and thought to avoid what that worker did with school classroom and what Afghanis are doing with their women. Through these India can become the Golden Sparrow again.

We need to understand the aim of education as explained by Ravindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda. They explained that the aim of education is not only to gain knowledge but to learn how to apply that knowledge for betterment of the human civilisation. Through these we can synthesise both thought and learning. By synthesising the humanity can achieve many things in their lifetime. The problems of Global warming and climate change can be avoided. We can skip the banality of evil phenomenon as explained by Hanah Arendt. She explained that sometimes people subdue to the evil in the name of little benefits like corruption is one such example. Furthermore the society can avoid the colonialisation of lifeworld as explained by Habermas. We can avoid being anxious about anything. This was explained by Jonathan Haidt in his book "The anxious generation". When thought and learning coincides people stay away from procrastination and yield great results. To further on the benefits the nations can avoid conflicts in the international relations. The USA and Iran can peacefully run their country. India and Pakistan can live like brothers and problems of encroachment on others, agression toward neighbours and war can be avoided. To conclude. We need both learning and thought to avoid what that worker did with school classroom and what Afghanis are doing with their women. Through these India can become the Golden Sparrow again.