What do we mean by the word education?
When we see the word education or we hear it then we always think that when a person goes to school and gets good marks in his 10th and 12 board exams and get a good college and the does the good job then we see that person and think that he is a good educated person. But I don’t think that this is the real meaning of education. What is the difference between an educated and uneducated person? Answer to this is that an educated person will see everything differently and will handle every situation ethically that person will know his or her rights which are given to them every time it is not necessary that you have to bring excellent marks to be educated if a person is contributing towards the society then his education is said to be of proper use. Education isn’t one thing. Educators decisions can lead to traditional schooling, traditional recess, self-organizing learning environments(SOLE’s), massive open online courses(MOOC’s), apprenticeships, democratic schools, schooling, boarder schools or hunter-gatherer “schools” to name a few.
I was going through my news feed. What I learnt from that post is.
The real education is a journey from converting the Human Being in to Being Human. Unless the education makes you a good human being it is of no use. Education is not only what we learn in school or college. Everything we learn in life is also education. Schooling is a formal process of acquiring knowledge which is divided in classes, acquired in stages and ultimately it makes the student fit for the world. The critical aspect of schooling is its emphasis on student to make him employable.
Education on the other hand, is beyond the confines of school.
The mere fact that we need to introduce ethics and moral education shows that all was not good until now. We raised our children and taught them to dream to big, to dream of becoming good lawyer, engineer, doctor etc. In this quest our children attained those goals but devoid of morality. The result is massive corruption in our society. For we taught our children to become big, to become rich, we didn’t teach them to become ‘happy’.
So at last want to say this real education makes the person wise and enables him/her to take ‘wise’ decisions for the society in general and humanity in particular.
At last I would like to conclude:
Real Education is thus, the pursuit of wisdom.
