“Learning is light, and ignorance is darkness”: meaning, meaning and alternatives

There are sayings that, it would seem, do not need to be clarified, for example, "doctrine is light, and ignorance is darkness." But some still do not understand their meaning. But not only for such people our article is written. In fact, our note is for everyone, because it will not only have the meaning of a proverb, but also something else.

"Knowledge is power"

So said F. Bacon - one of the leaders of the New Age. He was such an active and energetic companion that he even died carrying out scientific experience. Our world could well subscribe to his words. Reality obeys professionals. They develop new gadgets, write books and texts on the Internet (journalists, for example). The world revolves around those who know something.

If a person does not learn anything, then not only will he not achieve success in life, he will be a slave to the system and other people all his life, therefore, "learning is light and ignorance is darkness." True, to be completely honest, it should be said that a person who successfully studies does not necessarily become a large and important boss. In Russia, the reality is that "smarties" are often, on the contrary, controlled by others. And the whole secret is that the latter have influential parents or other relatives. Thus, the fate of an educated person in Russia is to be aware of their unenviable share, suffer, cry and understand how things are in the world. Of course, this is a little comfort for those who believe that the saying “doctrine is light and ignorance is darkness” can be motivated. But believe me, it’s better to be aware of your existence, to make it bright than to wander in the dark and think that it is so. However, we were distracted. We pass to the value.

Interpretation

Actually, there is no need to be seven spans in the forehead to understand this meaning. The words “learning is light and ignorance is darkness” have the following meaning: education is good, and lack of it is bad. And in our time this is especially true. The sociologist Urlich Beck in the book “Risk Society. On the way to the new Art Nouveau ”I noticed that in the modern world the requirements for people are very high. Higher education (W. Beck is oriented toward Germany, of course) is the minimum condition for any success of a person in modern society. It is noteworthy that in both Russia and Germany there is some oversaturation of the market for specialists with higher education. There are no jobs for so many people. This is true both of Pushkin’s homeland and of Goethe’s homeland.

About education in Russia

In general, still V.V. Putin said that it’s enough to graduate economists and lawyers already, there are already too many of them. But universities didn’t hear the president’s directive and continued to train unnecessary personnel. Therefore, newly minted specialists after graduation were engaged in anything except the activity that they were trained in. Well, everyone knows that we have two realities: one in reality and the other in paper.

The aphorism “teaching is light and ignorance is darkness” gives, of course, the right vector of development, but many, in view of the strange requirement that even a cleaning lady in Russia should have a higher education, go to get it, not particularly caring about the light that He will overcome and dispel darkness.

“Learning is light, and ignorance is a pleasant twilight”

You can relate to the modern interpretation of classical aphorism as you like. For example, we can say that this is a prank. And you can take this thought as a symbol of time. In today's Japan, one of the most popular causes of death is overwork. And also the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun are constantly learning - this is an indispensable condition for their professional suitability.

Therefore, sometimes it is really better to stop and leave a twilight pleasant to the eye and heart. In other words, the aphorism “learning is light, ignorance is darkness” (proverbs in general, I must say, orient a person correctly) is true, but one must be careful about him, like everything else.

In addition, one more unattractive fact must be recognized: there are people in Russia and in any country in the world who are incapable of learning. Unfortunately, their lot is eternal haze.