Truth and Lies Are Human Values

I am on my way to school its July, so there is a gentle breeze; I never knew that day will turn out to be eye opener. My school used to be famous for studies and all mischievous activities. There was a fight between two of my friends, Saran and Abraham, the Friday evening as it is a common thing with friends, gets a small fight while leaving classes and this matter is somehow traveled to the class teacher’s ears.

 So it’s time to get popularity and your name will be murmured for some days even for weeks by all friends until she solves the issue. Sometimes it will be taken to principal’s office; there you have to stand out for a while and whoever sees you (teachers) will ask about it later on when they have their class and you will be on the scene. On a positive note I will take this as a chance to make you familiar to everyone as there is a non-understandable and worthless rule is there it’s called ‘No Talk with girls’ and vice-versa for boys.

So now into the act, she is asking everyone about the incident as we boys always tell things in favor of our buddy, she really don’t know what she could do with asking us questions. So she had one more option, she straight away asked the victims to clearly explain what happened and what is the reason behind their quarrel.

She shoots a question to Abraham, Is it you the one who started the fight.

He strongly objected no.

Now the same question to Saran, he blamed on Abraham and smiled at him like nothing happened last Friday, because they themselves sorted it out, it seems to be alright between them and the class teacher now started this again because the complaint is not only about the fight but also one has used some bad words like the***iya during the fight. So she wanted to know who said it.

Now in a huge anger she turned towards Abraham and asked him, is he a true Christian? Including himself in this sort of silly fights, telling bad words, roaming with friends on late evenings and now she said that she wanted to know who used that word. Also she ended with a staring look towards Abraham and said, a true Christian never lies.

This is the plot, it just passed me as an ordinary incident that day, but later when I recollect, I had a huge doubt that is speaking truth only belongs to Christians? And a teacher can teach her students about humanity, how to treat people instead that she is preaching religious values to that boy. There are many places to speak about the almighty, but a school is a place to learn about seeing people as people, hope the concept of uniform is known to everyone. So one of my friend who is a non-Christian, puts his head down and murmured are we allowed to lie? If so am I not punished? I made a small laughter. It’s not that she should not tell about Christianity, everyone around is not Christians and should consider that.

The point is it’s a teacher’s duty to make her student a human and not to restrict him into a religious circle. So in general India needs good humans, irrespective of the religion and school has a major part in doing so.