Do you think education can make people less superstitious?

Scheng, strictly speaking it should but it necessarily doesn't. Part of it is due to upbringing and when people who have been fed on a diet of superstition, find it difficult to get it totally out of their system.But education helps them make conscious decisions to rationalise their thought processes and whip themselves to get over this.On the other hand, there are some sections[I have seen them personally--from rural areas where they are uneducated- that would never even contemplate reasoning and would be plagued by fear].So, I would sum it this way Education can help in making people less superstitious;but if they have had a terribly firm upbringing that defied all education they would still continue to be so.-they need to make conscious efforts ;it would not naturally change them.

Hello scheng What do you mean people being supersititious? You call it is supersititious just because you don't believe it? I think people can trust what they like, just like religions. I majored in Physics in college but I even think there are something in the universe can't be explained explicitly. Then why you would think what you think is correct? And people doesn't think like you or believe in something you don't understand is supersititious. I am just saying in many cases, people should not be called superstitious. Being a human, we have already lost so many senses, and they degenerate rapidly. So animals can sense a tsunami and an earthquake but we human cannot. So do you think people have strong sense saying they are psychics? If one doesn't hurt oneself and doesn't affect others, it is alright that they can choose what they believe in. Sharing with others open-mindedly would help each other not doing glaringerrors. So I seldom call people superstitious. ^.^ Have a nice day~

I think sometimes education can make a person less superstitious but it's the culture that influences them more than education. Here, people are fearful of Friday 13th but I decided long ago that it was my lucky day--so it usually is! Our tall buildings rarely have 13th floors because of superstition. Most people who go into those buildings are educated so I don't think education alone can defeat superstitions.

Yes!!! a random act of events that lead to an outcome that is completely random is not something people need to fear. And yet they still do. My son's was born on a 13th, so what he'll have a bunch of birthdays on friday the 13th throughout his life. People need the education or atleast some knowledge to understand that "carma" doesn't exist. That what ever happens, happens and any one thing can change everything. Breaking a mirror, walking under a ladder, having a black cat run in front of you. It all means nothing. Just random events that began from some other random event. There is no such thing as Luck, whether it be good or bad it doesn't exist. People tell their kids good luck or it must be your lucky day. Parents need to educate their children on this. That is where it all begins.

I think it still depends on what education feeds us. I mean, my parents are educated, but they are still superstitious. I believe that the right information can make people less superstitious, and it also helps that we are surrounded with people that are realistic. I think what contributed to my parents being superstitious is that my grandparents were superstitious too. So as long as what education teaches are the facts, then it could probably make people less superstitious in a way.

Superstitious can be eradicated within certain people when they required more education in their life. Sometimes, superstitious belief were rub on us by our custom and that is hard to ignore. In my custom, it's more like things that we should and shouldn't do, we have no belief in numbers. So we don't care less of number 13 or 444.

Yup, definitely because education liberates one's mind from ignorance, superstitious beliefs, but should also strengthen one's spirituality and morality...that's the greatest contribution of education to humanity.

I don't think education can make people less supertitious. I have friends who have post graduate degrees yet they are still very supertitious. It's part of one's culture.

all doesnt lie in education alone...its your confidence that speaks volumes of you & the more you think you are capable in your own ways...i feel that superstition will not be there in your vicinity.......

ya definitely education is one basis through which one can eradicate superstition from everywhere. Just people should understand that there is something meaningful happening behind these things and that it is not just due to some numbers alone .

I don't think so. Yeah, Education can give us knowledge and skill,and so on .But the Superstitious is the conception of people.It difficult to change it.

Fear is the result of the unknown. Any knowledge removes such fears.

Well maybe it's true for some people but i can't seem to relate education and superstitions together. Because i still know some people who've had bachelors and honours and are still superstitious of stuff...I guess it's just a way of life, it's somethin that affects us and so i don't know if being educated could eradicate those thoughts..^_^ Just what i think..

hihi..i feel that education can only make people less supertitious to a small extent..i know of many highly educated people who are extremely superstitious and i also know of many lowly educated people who are not superstitious at all.. i feel that what affects one's superstitious level is one's upbringing, environment and one's own beliefs... if you are brought up in an superstitious family, directly or indirectly you will be affected.. if your culture is of an superstitious nature, i guess you will have to be superstitious in order to blend in.. and lastly but most importantly, it is up to your own beliefs..no one can force you to be superstitious..

In theory having a better education should make us less superstitious because we understand the world around us better. However, in practice I have known very well educated people who are superstitious, which rather seems odd to me.

Yes,it makes less superstitous.If the people are uneducated out of 1000 ,999 will be superstitous,and if they are educated out of 1000 ,more than 500 will be less superstitous.The number may increase too.500 people can make others less superstitous.Like wise education reduces the superstitous.

Yes of course!

Education has to do with beliefs to some extent. But supersticions mean diferent things in each culture. Probably what I feel is superstition, to another human being can be a part of his religious beliefs.

yes I certainly believe that education can eradicate superstition though it make take some time. We will have to make people aware that superstition is nothing. I am from India and India is a very superstitious country. but things have greatly changed here because of education. Most of the people that live in cites are really superstitious. but where education has not reached like villages of India, there superstition still continues. education may not eradicate it fully but at least makes people aware.

If superstition is connect to religion then no amount of education is going to change people.