In our everyday thinking we are generally
not very rigorous and tend to use concepts indiscriminately and hence think sloppily.
A common failing of this kind is our tendency to lump together concepts like education,
learning and gathering information
when in fact each belongs to its own distinctive universe of meaning.
This can have disastrous consequences for thinking about education
generally and particularly
harmful for an attempt to think through the notion of murabbi.
The success of the attempt to
understand the Islamic notion of murabbi hinges ,
to a great extent,
on making clear the distinctions between education and learning,
on the one hand, and education and gathering information, on the other.
To mark the difference between education and learning is of utmost importance.
Although we think that education and learning
are synonymous
yet a closer examination will show that in spite of obvious similarities
they are distinct and,
furthermore,
learning presupposes education.