This story has been a foundation to many things in my life of late...the very basic, importance of education and knowledge! Ignorance is NEVER bliss.Simply a mode of destruction and a state of denial it is!Knowledge is godliness as it's a saviour of the offspring and mankind.
He was a contended poor Scottish farmer.One fine day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby marshland.With no hesitance, he ran towards the shrill voice. There, mired to his waist in black mud, was a young lad, struggling to free himself. The farmer saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse land. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the lad the farmer had saved the previous day.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life.""No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came running and clanged to his father's muddy jumpers .
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked."Yes," the farmer replied proudly."I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education which I'll provide my own son. He will do us proud someday. Or even the world! And that he did...
The farmer's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world with the discovery of the first known antibiotic, savior of mankind!-penicillin
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was the young lad saved from the marshland was stricken with pneumonia.What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the rich nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
The farmer's son? Sir Alexander Fleming,-Discoverer of Penicillin-1945 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for "the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". Saviour of mankind.
A vaccine for HIV / AIDS? A cure for cancer? The potential discoverer may be an unborn child, a little boy with mud between his feet in the slumps of Mumbai, or even the kid who extended his hand in shame last nite just to fill his collapsing tummy...knowledge...education...to me, is the sixth basic element!
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it is true when you say the essence of growing up is education. the more pressing matter is how the education is manipulated into use. and the freedom someone has to turn that experience into a worthwhile, earth changing discovery. this in reality does not exist in many countries. even if some have the will, they dont have the opportunities, have the doors infront of them, but no guidance on which to be opened.
in reality, we need guidance and good teachers. that means you can go anywhere in life. What the boy in the story had is good guidance, and probably good friends. I want to know who his teachers were.
You blog is shaping up well, write more :)
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