Something inspirational:

"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."

SHAKUNTALA DEVI

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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4 comments on “A Shakuntala Devi quote”

  1. Education helps us clear a few hurdles in life but it doesn't teach love, which is possibly the key to life.

    But I doubt if anyone really knows the truth about life, except to survive it.

    1. Thanks Tim. Yes, school is devoid of love, understanding and helping children develop a sense of self, allowing them to think for themselves, rather than being told what to learn. But it starts with our parents.

      In light of what's going on in the world, it is clear we're not coming from a place of love. We need to learn to care and fast.

  2. Going to school and getting a degree is much less about education than learning about life, which only begins when we finish school and college and we never complete that education.

    1. Not all students will learn about life in school. It's more about meeting government targets. Perhaps that is changing slightly, but I do agree with you that we never entirely complete our education.

      But education is something we should embrace in and out of school. Life is an education, but not many of us indulge in learning about life.

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