What really is education?

In the reading "The Functions of Education" by Jiddu Krishnamurti, it questions us what education means to each one of us. Everyday students go to school mainly to get an education and from this hopefully live a good future. After reading this reading, it opened my mind to many questions. Some of these questions I have asked myself before, but never had the chance to think deeply about the answers. I myself live my life with a daily routine or as the reading would say, "Otherwise, for the rest of your days, you will be miserable. Not knowing what you really want to do, your mind falls into a routine in which there is only boredom,decay and death" (par11). More often than not I do live a boring life because this daily routine does not being any fun into my life and I always ask myself for something better. 

This reading questions a lot about the way our minds think versus the ways society wants us to think. Over and over again it states that we live a life where we are scared and frighten to do certain things, which is somewhat true even if you do not think you live this way. In paragraph five it states, "Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, Afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbors, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death." I agree with this because many of us do live in our lives scared and afraid of things around us. We are worry about what other think about us rather than igonoring what other people say. In this reading it says that living life like that will not help us to become educated but instead just teach us to live as what society thinks is right or in other word live life safe. But this is not the way the reading wants us to be educated but instead to educated freely. How freely may you ask? Freely as in l, you can step out of the box and do what you want to do and discover different answers by using the questions that travel around your mind while you're in class that you are afraid to ask your teacher because you are afraid of what other may think of you. 

Somethings that stood out to me from this reading is the question about this world being in such a perfect order and how chaos would result in revolting against it (par8). This stood out to be because the questions resuming after it had me thinking. Out world is not in perfect order, because if it was then there would not be war and we wouldn't need a government to keep us from failing. We live in this place where we are taught to live around certain rules and to think that only education will help you accomplish what you need to do in order to live a prosperous life, but is that really the case? Isn't there certain situations where that one person who decided to take a different route ends up being the only person who makes it to the end? Then why can't we ask "stupid" questions? It's because society says otherwise. 

In conclusion, this reading opens up the mind to think outside of the box. To think about other possibilities instead of following what others are doing. To be able to think for yourself and to live freely. Say that living the life that the whole lives in is not the life you want to live because you are actually living in a life where you are scared, bored, and fear.