Is It True that A Man's Education Alienates Him from His Own People?

     Education is not merely the bookish education and getting certain diplomas and degrees. Education is to civilise the man and draw the best in him. It must result in his all-rounded personality, which means physically, mentally, intellectually, morally, and spiritually he is developed. So he is good in very way. He is humble, ready-witted, able to look after himself and others, can act as the occasion demands, moral and can be useful to himself and others. His wit is like a deep river moving noiselessly about but delivering his goods. In short he will be what we call a good man.


     But what do we see today? Many of the so-called educated class display a certain snoberry. They form a class apart from others. They think they know too much and they should not be found in ordinary company. They forms clubs and societies in which the ordinary man has no place. The so-called educated man at worst quote from books and papers he has read. His morals are only bookish morals.

     The fruits of his learning does not normally filter to the ordinary level. So the fruits are no more fruits since they do not reach the soil for further propagation. The snoberry is seen even among the members of a family. The son educated in college begins to look down upon his own parents and their way of life. The life in a hostel does not normally improve the character of a student. A hostel is after all a place where one pays for the services and having enjoyed certain conveniences the educated boy or girl returns home only to find things very different. He cannot adjust himself to the common surroundings since he has had a taste of the artificial. What has been said above is at least true of the developing countries. Thus the educated person finds himself an alien in his own home and familiar surroundings.


     It is not entirely the mistake of the educated. How and why they are educated is at fault. In most countries the type of education given is only to fit the student for a job, very rarely to fit him into life. So the students grow into an artificial environment. Very rarely the type of education given regenerative or creative or for that matter recreative.

     In order to overcome this lopsided development educationists from Rousseau onwards have recommended methods where the child will learn in a natural atmosphere instead of being pulled out of it. M.K. Gandhi gave his own basic way of education where the child learns everything in his natural surroundings. Perhaps it is a failure even in Gandhi's country because people have a glamour for a formal type of education in which they have been brought up. There is needed a change in the philosophy of education so that life's purpose may be made clear and the objectives or goals reached. In fact, there has been, for sometime past, some rethinking going on at higher levels in reshaping education and one hopes, not vainly, that things will improve sooner.

Air-Propelled Bike "A Solution for Environmental-Technology Harmony"

Are you often drives a car or motorcycle to travel from one place to another? Even though sometimes it's quite reachable using a bike or travel on foot. Have you know how much carbon dioxide each vehicle produce daily? Can you imagine how dirty is the air in our beloved Earth right now because of the excess exhaust gases coming from the vehicles owned by each and every person?

It has been known for a long time that technology advancements especially in transportation has contributed to the destruction of nature. Exhaust gases contain air pollutant particles such as carbon dioxide that become the main cause of global warming, carbon monoxide which is a toxic material and dangerous for living beings, also sulfur dioxide and nitro dioxide which are the causes for acid rains which is quite destructive with its corrosive nature.


So, how could we solve this problem? Many scientists have tried to use alternative energy sources such as electric, water, hydrogen, solar cell, and many others. These inventions are proved to be much environmental-friendly than carbon based fuels that are primarily used for cars nowadays. However, the problem is always about the cost of production. These advanced vehicles required expensive components to make them work such as solar panel that increased its price significantly. This has caused many people to still rely on fossil fuel because it is much more cheaper and easy to use.

 

                                                                         Citroen Survolt, Concept Electric Race Car

So, how could we create alternative energy vehicle that is both cleaner and cheaper? Behold, the newest idea scientists had in mind. Air powered vehicle, or should I say, air propelled vehicle because the air is not used as the reactants of chemical reaction to be turned in to other substance through combustion. Rather, it is used to push the vehicle forward using released high pressure compressed air.

This idea was showed at National Geographic's Planet Mechanic: Air Propelled Sandwich episode where Jem tried to create air based vehicle for food catering service.

The experiment went on using bicycle as the vehicle. The bike used carbon-fiber air tanks that are usually used by firefighters as part of their breathing equipment and connected them to two rotary air engines that drive the rear wheel. One of the benefits of using compressed air over batteries is that you can recharge in a few seconds. Of course, the compressor works on electricity, so that’s not always a clean power source. But even if your local utility uses coal, if you recharge at night or off peak, chances are you are using power that would be wasted otherwise because coal power plants take too long to shut down and restart, so they are often kept producing at night. But it is with a clean electricity source for the compressor that the air-powered motorcycle becomes a truly green ride. 

Still, it has several downside such as the needs to be recharged quickly because the air supplies in the tank are depleted at a significant rate. Also, you need to have pure air as the main ingredients for the air supplies because polluted air would result in also polluted emission. What enter the tank also come out from it.  Thus, the reliability of the emission grade of this vehicle depends on the cleanliness or purity of the air supplies it had.

Whatever the disadvantages are, this invention still hold the place as one of the most clean and environmentally friendly vehicle ever. It still has so many chance to be developed. I hope they would be able to make a vehicle that can used air that are already available around us instead of pure air as air supplies and can turn it in to fresh air that will be released by the vehicle. How cool it would be if it really happened huh??