Most of what we learn in school or college doesn’t seem to have any direct use in our daily lives.
So why do we study at all?
I once heard a university professor give a wonderful answer to this question. He said:
“The math problems we solve in textbooks don’t really help us solve real-life problems.But the process of solving them sharpens our imagination and disciplines our thinking.That’s why — more important than finding the right answer in an exam paper is learning to think deeply about a problem.”
Education is like food.
An ordinary person eats about one to one-and-a-half kilograms of food every day — nearly half a ton in a year. Most of it leaves the body as waste, but a small portion is absorbed as nutrition, sustaining life.
In the same way, from the countless books, topics, and subjects we study, only a small essence remains — and that essence is knowledge.
Food keeps the body alive; knowledge keeps the mind alive.
So whenever you find a little time, pick up a book — and nourish your soul.
