Why Education?
Education is the main object that is natural.It brings the
rational attitude of any species.We are human beings learning things from the
nature as well as society.
The other species like cattle or the same learns from their
own habitation or from
nature.They are our first teachers.As men or the other
species pass a long way of life they learn individually according to their
needs.
Chronology of education
Life is a long journey.It passes different stages like
childhood,teenage.adulthood and oldhood.After these periods our ultimate abode
will take us from the mundane world.we will enter into another world that is
called heaven.From the very moment of our birth we have started to learn.We
notice that the children try to imitate the things the elders around them
do.After some years the children start to go to an institution to get
education.But the other species except Human beings do not have the opportunity
or need to attend in an institutional education.This makes the differences between
human beings and the other species.We the human beings are gifted with vast
opportunities.That is why we are the best creation of god.After childhood when
the teenage comes our attitude changes.we try to think about good and bad.At
the age of 18 or more which we know as adulthood we become rational.Again at
one point of life we behave like the children.In this period the more we grow
older, the more we begin to forget and show our attitude just like a child.In
fact we are moving through the stages of life.All the stages of life give us
ample opportunity of learning.
History of education.
The history of education is as old as the history of
men.With the passage of time we are now in the advanced age which is
embellished with the help of education.If we peep through the ages of our
ancestors we find nothing important that was done by them.The first man in the
world whom we know as Adam or Monu had nothing to do but when he and his wife
were expelled from the heaven they began to find out the sources of leading
life.In that period there was no opportunity of schooling.They learnt things
from the nature or the surroundings.But gradually man started to realize the
importance of institutional education.The need of living compelled them to
think about learning and making them advanced.If we study the life cycle of our
ancestors we find that there was no opportunity of writing or reading.As there
was no letters they could not write or read.But they used to write the
important matters by using some symbols.It shows us the idea of the history of
education.They did things according to their needs.For example we can study the
history of the Greeks or the Romans.In ancient Greece education become
widespread as the art of writing was invented.They used to send their male children
to school.Education was not for the general people then but a privilege for the
chosen few who played strategic roles in the running of the states or
religion.The Greeks conqured the Romans and the Romans under Greeks influence
developed a strong tradition of literacy.However,they taught their children
about warfare and agriculture.What was the motive behind their education over
only warfare or agriculture?They wanted to become free from the Greek
domination and to live a healthy and happy life.This story tells us the history
of education.Man started to gain knowledge only for the need they had to
face.Now there are many branches of knowledge and these are implemented
according to the needs of human being.
Formal and informal education.
The free education we now receive from an institution like a
school,college or university is referred to as formal education.Apart from
institution we learn from our surroundings that is called informal
education.The education imparted by the institutions helps us to make our
livelihood.But the education we receive from nature or by the surroundings
helps us to become liberal.At present
liberal education is absent from the mind of our students.That is why there is
chaos and confusion everywhere in the world.There is rest and peace in the
world and this is because of the lack of liberal education.
The Message.
Education
makes a man perfect in the ways of life.But if we
receive education only for material purposes then it will give us
nothing but earnestness of the world.So the mingle of liberal and
practical education is a
must for the coming period to make life comfortable and this will add
the
meaning of life.
