- Nelson Mandela
Meaning of Education
It is true that education is primarily responsible for all the inventions and discoveries that have led to the development of mankind. Our entire progress can be attributed to the boon of education by making successful use of it.
Role of Education
Then, how can education help in bringing change desired in world of the day?Today, our world is beset with many problems, like-
§ Diseases
§ Excessive population
§ Global Warming
§ Hunger
§ Lack of Healthcare Facilities
§ Lack of Sanitation
§ Nuclear Holocaust
§ Poor Environmental Conditions
§ Poverty
§ Premature deaths
§ Scarcity of Resources
§ Terrorism
§ Violence
§ Wars
Of course, education cannot serve as a magic wand to solve these and other such maladies but it can, certainly, give a positive direction to humankind towards finding the solutions.
Good Education
This calls for the need for a good education. What, then, is a good education?
Martin Luther King Jr. had explained the aim of true education as, “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
It is very important for the inclusion of moral education in our basic curriculum and, thus, make character-building as an integral part of the good Education.
Good Education is a gift that places a person on a higher pedestal in life, compared to his or her unfortunate fellow human beings who could not avail of it, because of their circumstances.
WB Yeats had said,
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Therefore, true education can ignite the fire of intelligence. Education should be conversant with the global perspective also so that a person can easily adjust in any part of the world. This calls for developing a global vision.
A successfully educated person can lead the world to be a happy place where peace and tranquility would rein to bring in prosperity. Therefore, it is important for everybody to avail of good education for seeking true knowledge.
However, only wandering in the forest of education or diving to the deepest possible depths of the ocean of knowledge, aimlessly does not serve any purpose.
How can education turn bad?
Education can cause immense harm also, without the moral content in it. Osama Bin Laden is an example. He had studied Economics and Business Administration. Probably, he had also taken a degree in Civil Engineering or in public administration. He had also attended an English-language course in Oxford, England.
However, his degrees in education could not serve any useful purpose for mankind. He masterminded the 9/11 attacks in the USA in 2001. This date opened the floodgate of terrorism in the world that has brought a definitive and worsening change in the world. Nearly 3000 people lost their own lives and innumerable ones, their near and dear ones. The loss and damage of the property was unprecedented. It was all a result of his negative bent of mind that he used against the face of humanity leaving deep scars behind. It gave a new life to this demon. Since then, this massive loss of life and huge damage to the property spread in geometric progression all over the world.
Therefore, truly meaningful education is the sole path that can give us wisdom to face present and future challenges of the world. It only requires a burning passion to acquire it with absolute perfection in whatever field we choose to pursue.
We can safely conclude that Good Education is a true panacea for people of the world.
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R. C. Verma
Positive Education alone can bring sanity in the world and build a future for mankind.
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Education is the basic requirement of one and all. It separates us from the animals but mere literacy is not education. It has to have some purpose in it. For this we need to understand its real meaning.
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