Learn. Unlearn. Relearn.

Beyond every reality, behind every truth, is another reality or an alarming truth. Surrealism as it is. As I was crossing a highway in the University Belt wearing my shirt, lanyard, jeans and shoes, compressed by freedom education, I witnessed how people even the students from different walks of life proved the existence of illiteracy behind literacy within them. Disobeyed social agreement, ignored rules and regulations set by the authority and disrespected commandment of God. These are the living testimonies that each and every one of us is somehow illiterate. I saw myself crossed the way where pedestrian lanes where invisible. I am illiterate. We are illiterate.



According to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary, illiterate means unable to read and write or showing a lack of familiarity with the fundamentals of a particular knowledge but as Alvin Toffler has once said, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”



Modern illiteracy covers and masters unorganized government, terrorism, abortion, crime and all other actions packed and garmented by three superior words IMMORALITY, DESTRUCTION AND SIN, all against law, all against values and all against God. To be able to escape from that so called illiteracy, try to embrace the justified education.



Learn. Not all human re given the “rights” to go to school, thus, they became super illiterate while we, called and believed as educated people always play the burning fire of illiteracy. Learning is a compound process of practice and discipline. It indeed separate immoral elements from the stagnant yet appealing and powerful morality. Learning is the collection of knowledge, values and virtues. If you don’t possess these, then learning is not in you and graduations do not deserve you.



Learn to share knowledge. Intelligence is not measured by knowledge owned instead by knowledge shared. Learn to give, it lessens crime. Strive hard, it will nourish you. Learn to respect people, it reflects who you are and reflection creates imitation. Provide a clean reputation. Learn to sacrifice; it is one of the silent languages of love. Understand people around you; people are different so accept the fact that you are one of them. Learn to learn as every human should learn. Lastly, have fear on God.



Unlearn. With every cigarette smoked, four minutes of your life is reduced. Unlearn smoking. As alcoholic drinks flow to your system, almost fifty percent of the total system is devastated. Unlearn drinking. Our brains, when attacked by drugs will damage every stocked knowledge and even good ideas which are still on the process. Unlearn drug-addiction. These vices are learned with the great influence of modernity and as considered as the best avenues to death. Unlearn similar or interconnected lessons to these for these are the roots of anger, stress, conflict and rebellion on earth.



Relearn. Lessons learned not just inside the four corners of the classroom but also outside the real world must doom to repeat. Adjust to the changing generations but do not forget the moral brought by the yesterday instead reserve it for the tomorrow’s welfare. Relearning is not just simply reacquiring and repracticing values and knowledge but it is also connected with the verb sharing, teaching, touching and passing Share the knowledge, teach the exercise, touch others’ hearts and pass the ideal generation.



Illiterate people anywhere are the threat to the literate people everywhere. Do not engage yourself with the dark knowledge, full-pledged freedom, unprotected personality, green mind brainstorming, and other immoral application. Remember that life is not a matter of greatness. Life is not a matter of encircled digits in your class cards. Life is not a matter of achievements and recognitions, of awards and medals, of seminars and conferences. Life is not a matter of gold, of richness. Life is a matter of lessons. Lessons learned, lessons unlearned and lessons relearned.