Introduction
Open your mind,
Let your brain breathe
Open
your mind only once and you will never be able to close it again. With an open
mind, life looks infinite and interesting, but some people persistently never
want to open their minds for fear they should be disturbed by the bright
evidence that they were in the dark. There are people who look as if they prefer
sticking to ignorance. There are no stupid learners except the ones who never
accept openness and improvement. They don’t want to exert any mind effort. They
just wait for the teacher to offer them readymade answers to global issues.
When teachers give anything, they must show that every piece of knowledge has
an expiration date. Nothing is permanent in knowledge. The previous year already
belongs to the far primitive past. Therefore learners have to make use of what
they learn at school in progressing by themselves using their minds. This way
they’ll perceive the world from different angles as it will have varied shapes,
colors and dimensions. They’ll gain a new perspective for transforming old
views and ideas into a powerful tool for improvement which will not only affect
the world around them, but it will have a positive impact on their future.
The
social web has greatly affected the students’ knowledge and beliefs as the mind
is very sensitive to the environment it belongs to. The social media has the
power to shape a new risky culture for the new generation. Now most of the
youth are hooked on the multiplying social networking sites, and they are
normally receiving huge quantities of information that forge their thoughts and
tendencies. They have neither the time nor the skills necessary to sift, pick
up, adapt and adopt knowingly. The impact is so significant that school has to
boost the students’ minds to be able to evaluate and filter the input. Most of
the information they encounter is wide-ranging and often fallacious or contradictory.
It is also far from being scientifically proven. Most of it is generally an
amalgamation of impressions and volatile pieces of information that have no
basis in reality. Therefore, the damage on the brain is fatal, and it could
lead to serious dysfunction of the mind, or even complete brainwash.
If
you cannot understand a text in the way the author wants you to understand it,
it is not the writer’s problem, and it is not yours either. I am sure the
problem is in the content of the text. Fair enough, isn’t it? Maybe, but there
should be a certain degree of compatibility between the waves of transmission
and those of reception; otherwise both the writer’s mind and yours have
different natures. The writer and the reader are accomplices in forming the
meaning of the text. The mind is the machine which can transmit and receive
information according to its references or conceptions based on formerly installed
programs. That’s why closed minds never tolerate anything which doesn’t
dovetail with its already existing fossilized designs and thinking patterns.
Open minds, on the other hand, have habits and traits which are so flexible
that they can receive, analyze, synchronize, and then accept or reject
providing sufficient arguments for each of both reactions. Therefore, it all
depends on the type of mind one has.
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