LEARNING - "Know a lot about a little" + "Know a little about a lot"
Which one is better: “Knowing a lot about a little” or “knowing a little about alot” Most of us are always aimed at “knowing a lot about a little”. That is doing specialization - Masters and Doctorates. This gets us a high paying job. But very less focus on “Knowing a little about a lot”. I shall explain this with an example: If Meenakshi wishes to crack UPSC exam, just reading day and night and working hard, may or may not give her good result even though she had sufficient knowledge on her subjects. Then how can she? The most appropriate meaning of “Learning” is the modification of our behaviour. How can we modify our behaviour? With the knowledge gained from the information retrieved through education. According to Swami Vivekananda, education was not only the collection of information, but something more meaningful, i.e., man-making, life-giving and character-building. Could we get such an education through our education system? Absolutely not. For that, “Knowing a litt...