Mechanical knowledge offers a solution for everything, but rarely solves anything. For moral crisis, for instance, it prescribes a course on moral education, without realising that it is precisely the mechanical imparting of knowledge that fails to nurture genuine moral values in learners.
Worst of all is the pretension of knowledge. Amid ignorance, a certain class of people, or those who assume the role voluntarily, take up “knowledgeing,” parading the act of making others knowledgeable, as a lofty mission, often with a touch of mysticism. They glorify “knowledge for knowledge’s sake,” which serves no real purpose and often does more harm than good. More often than not, such pretension flourishes under public patronage.
I wonder if I belong to this last category. Yet, by pointing out this very tendency, I may be spared the charge of pretension. What I seek, in truth, is not abstraction but the real, knowledge that speaks to life as it is lived here and now, even as I strive to think of it on a larger canvas.
Niraj Kumar Jha
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