Srinagar, Oct. 27 -- Education is often touted as the pillar of progress, the guiding light that illuminates the path of civilization, and the ascending stairs that lead societies from ignorance to knowledge, but its authentic significance is far greater than fact-gathering, formulae-learning, and technical expertise. Knowledge without ethical coloring is a vessel without water-a container without content, hollow, and incapable of sustaining the human spirit. Learning can never be divorced from ethics, morals, and character since after moral guidance is divorced from the learning process, it can result in cultivating minds that are intellects that are brilliant but heartless, talented but egotistic, and capable but ethically blind, and th...