An Unspoken Obligation to be Educated

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There is, within us, an unspoken obligation. An obligation to be informed. An obligation to be familiar with things beyond the borders of our conformity. Out into things foreign, and into the subjects of our misconceptions and wrong judgments.

We have an unspoken obligation to be educated.

In whatever form, as long as it helps us in expanding our perspective. As long as it makes us see more sameness rather than differences. In subjects like race, nation or politics; what are the source of conflicts in all these but differences? Differences brought about by our biases, prejudices, and closed-mindedness. 

Education's role to serve as a cure for these things. It is education's purpose to open minds; to break the metaphorical prison walls that separates, divides, and keep us in conflict. Through education, the way for inclusion, connectedness, and synergy opens. 

By fulfilling our responsibility to be educated, we are committing ourselves to be parts of the solution to our world's problems. 

No one will push us to do this but ourselves. It is a choice to be made; a path to be taken.

Let us recognize the cost of ignorance.

Let us see beyond being merely instructed, refuse to be indoctrinated, and instead, heed our unspoken obligation to be truly educated.