Power of Education

 

After detraining, I elbowed my way to a crowded bus. The back of a bus,as a rule, was relatively spacious. So, I tried my best to squeeze through the shoulders to the back of it. The crowd didn’t stop being clamorous until the bus started off. The window near me was open and the wind was blowing towards me while the bus was galloping. The feeling was marvelous.

Suddenly, my attention was drawn from the cool tremendous feeling to the fellows sitting near me. One was a kid some ten years old and the other was a guy in 30 or so. They were having a conversation freely. At first sight, I thought a son and his father were talking about some interesting topic. What I heard unmeant later, however, proved I was wrong. All this just happened between two strangers---a 30-year-old guy and a 10-year-old kid! I was extremely amazed at the rapport they’d established, because they were talking the way the acquaintances usually do. What was more, their topics, which spanned many fields, were totally beyond my expectation, say, occupation, English, love, responsibility, etc. If I were asked to have a talk with one of them, it would never have caused such a good effect, I bet.

At that time I couldn’t help thinking of that of my own. To level with you, when I was that age, I could hardly think or even knew so much. What I knew was just playing and doing what the teachers and parents ordered. Nothing else! I couldn’t talk with my parents so freely, let alone a stranger who was my parents’ age.

Here, I really appreciate the ability that the children have today to communicate with others, which, I think, is due to the education not only from school but also from their parents and family. Parents of these kids largely have better education than ours do.

Education can indeed make our behavīor and manner elegant and refined.