How an Educated person is better than the Uneducated person
A society is a body of individuals of a species, generally seen as a community or a group. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive culture or institutions. But not every individual is same or have similar characteristics while living in the same society. One of the major elements that differentiate people living in the same society is “Education”. As Allah says in Quran in Surah Az-Zumar, Verse: 9
"Are those who have knowledge equal to those who do not have knowledge?”
The above verse clearly mentioned that those who have knowledge can’t be equal to those who do not have the knowledge. An educated person is far better than the uneducated one. He may well aware of the complexities of life, taking right decisions at the right time, how to talk in a variety of contexts, how to behave in different social gatherings, and most importantly he knows his personal and social identities which help him to introspect his personality that ultimately leads to the maturity in his character in terms of intellect and cognition. An educated person is one who knows how to be a good human being, how to live in society, how to make this world a better place to live.
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. This could happen more to the people with less knowledge or less education. Less educated people are frequently exposed only to a narrow range of ideas; such people tend to have simple understanding of how the world works. As a result, they believe they’re more knowledgeable than they actually are (the Dunning-Kruger Effect). Hence they are easily fooled by people who want to exploit them.
The Prophet did not only preach about importance of knowledge, he also gave examples of promoting knowledge. In the very first battle between the Muslims and unbelievers or Mecca, known as the war of Badr, the Muslims gain victory and caught seventy kuffars as prisoners of war. One of the criteria set by the Prophet was that those who were literate among the pris¬oners could go free if they teach reading and writing to ten Mus¬lim children.
Allah says in Quran in Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse: 164
“Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night and the day, and the [great] ships which sail through the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allah has sent down from the heavens of rain, giving life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and dispersing therein every [kind of] moving creature, and [His] directing of the winds and the clouds controlled between the heaven and the earth are signs for a people who use reason”.
The above verse shows that there are multiple signs in this universe for the people who have knowledge. Islam has always given a great emphasis on Education.
