Education Vs Literacy

Well, in high school we haven't heard of Education Vs Literacy, just because we were taught them to be synonyms for one another. However, there is a subtle, yet important factor that sets them different. We have achieved a lot from School and College. We knew friendship along with Career and then finally our jobs. However, these learning centres only equipped us to come back to this world. This is the world of competition and struggle.

They taught us to become one like them and not different. Thus, this process is termed as literacy. They taught us the very first alphabets to be able to communicate effectively in this competitive world. To be influential they enhanced our vocabulary, knowledge and altering our stance to the most updated teaching, helping us to be with time and not out-dated. But,this is just literacy.

There is another term, quite deeper in its meaning, which many of us have not thought deeply about. This is education. Education deals with the way we respond to literacy. It is the super intelligence that allows us to accept some teachings and discard the unwanted. It is the conscience that teaches us to adopt a mechanism to use our literacy in an authentic manner.

According to literacy, passing the examination with flying colors means that you have been successful in grasping knowledge. But education, works at a deeper level. It unconsciously works within a man to apply his intelligence where needed. But, there are loop holes in the teaching of literacy as even cheating can yield good results.

However, education states that this is not true understanding of the subject as marks is not the basis of your understanding of the subject. It is the understanding itself which is the basis of your understanding. It is the way you apply the brain, that is important and marks is just a successful product. So, education, says that it is your understanding alone that can determine your marks and not the other way round. And this understanding is education.

Education is a set of values.
For Example: When you go to school, your duty is to apply your brain in studies and grow productively. This is education, where one consciously works towards literacy and hold onto the values that support an enriched life. Literacy alone can make you tread the wrong path. But in the assistance of education, which teaches one to discriminate between fair and unfair means can never lead you to the wrong path. 

Literacy applied with Education is the total empowerment of our deeds/ work. The consciousness should always be there. This is a one line definition of education.