TRUE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION
I am a teacher, leader and a mother. When I think on the topic, the true purpose of education, I feel most youth, teachers and parents do not have a clarity on this. I look at the present-day youth at close quarters and many a time I find today’s students wired materialistically.
Any education which aims at financial security is meaningless. I find many parents undermining parental duties sacrificing literally everything to see their children settle in good jobs. The irony is the same parents wither in loneliness when abandoned.
Many youths are also drawn into a myth that acquisition of employment is the goal of education. Thereby becoming self-centred and egoistic- always thinking about their own priorities and benefits. Most students start their journey with a mere goal of just marks and grades. They are thoroughly convinced that any education which does not provide a job is meaningless. It is here that the parents and school play a vital role. We must induce moral growth and patriotic sentiments.
This is here as a teacher-leader apart from focusing on knowledge and 21st century skills, I would insist that we have to assist students to
1. unleash their own potential and guide them to learn how to make it meaningful.
2. hone their skills to shape their future.
3. make them understand and master the conditions for peace and sustainable development.
4. impart empathy, respect and intercultural awareness in our interactions with them.
5. teach how to live a happy and healthy life.
1. unleash their own potential and guide them to learn how to make it meaningful.
2. hone their skills to shape their future.
3. make them understand and master the conditions for peace and sustainable development.
4. impart empathy, respect and intercultural awareness in our interactions with them.
5. teach how to live a happy and healthy life.
The highest purpose of education is to bring about an integrated individual who is capable of dealing with life as a whole. Another purpose of education is to create new values. Merely to implant existing values in the mind of the child, Let us not think in terms of principles and ideals, but be concerned with things as they are.
The right kind of education is in understanding the child as he is without imposing on what he should be. Education is but a realization of love, passion and humanity.
Your Obsolutely true mam.. Education doesn't come by compulsion, rather it shud come, out of one's own interest.. Degree of interest can be valued from the marks and grades a student had obtained.. Devi
ReplyDeleteWell said Mam....It is our school system which start imposing children what to think .....Give them their freedom to think and imagine the way the want......We should facilitate not teach.......
ReplyDeleteVery true. There was a tendency to presume that any one who was opting to be a teacher is no good in other fields or is not capable of getting better job than this.
ReplyDeleteVery much friendly and at the same time assertive ideas also pragmatic please provide more such posting s regards Drssekar
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