The Importance of Education and Its Various Types
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela.
The real meaning of education is much more than the success in the personal and professional life. People in the modern society have narrowed the meaning of education.The education really means to improve the physical, social, mental wellbeing and to improve the skill level. The aim of education is very vast and it makes a person, a good person.
But there are many souls in this world who don’t get this proper education. Rather they work in order to earn their living. It is due to their poverty. So let us know about the importance of education and the nation’s commitment in all aspects of education in this essay briefly.
What is education? Is it different from schooling? If we explore the meaning of education, it is a process of inviting truth and possibility. It can be defined as the wise, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators but the learners may also educate themselves by autodidactic learning. A right to education has been recognized by some governments. At the global level, Article 13 of United Nation’s 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes the right of everyone to an education.
Education is the process of bringing desirable change into the behavior of human beings. With the development of society, education has taken many shapes such as child education, adult education, technical education, health education, physical education and so
The broad classification could be:
- formal education
- Non Formal education
- Informal education
Formal Education:
- Planned with a particular end in view
- Limited to a specific period
- Well-defined and systematic curriculum
- Given by specially qualified teachers
- Includes activities outside the class-room
- Observes strict discipline
Informal Education:
- Incidental and spontaneous
- Not-pre-planned nor deliberate
- Not imparted by any specialized agency
- No prescribed time-table or curriculum
- May be negative education also
Non-Formal Education:
- Outside the realm of formal Education
- Conscious and deliberate
- Serving the need of the identified group
Education plays a very important role in your life. For living a luxurious life or for living a better life, you should be educated. In a nutshell Education is the backbone of every one life’s.
Happiness abound: Stable, balanced, self dependent life. You know why being educated is extremely important? In order to be happy, you need to feel good from within. It is only possible when you have a stable mind. By simply being educated you’d have little job insecurity, no inferiority complex and a well organized understanding of the world. Education may not be the key to happiness, but it definitely is the key to a lot of other things which come together to make you happy.
Earn your own living. With evolving lifestyles, steep inflation rates and luxuries transcending into needs, it is not possible for a family to depend only on one person. You ought to work for self sufficiency and dependency and education helps you gain job opportunities for financial independence. Also, education helps you build a network with people whose resources might work the best in your benefit if you so choose to be self employed.
Economic growth of the nation. When the people of a nation are educated, they’d definitely carve ways to be self sufficient. An economically independent society is the stepping stone to combined productivity that leads to a economic growth of the nation on a whole. Now you know how those countries are doing so well for themselves? “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom”
Imparts ability to work across genres and cultures. Tell an uneducated person to work in a setting alien to him, you’d ask him to walk on a path of self destruction. Ask an educated man to travel nations and transmute the barriers of language and culture, you’d be testing his spirit of taking challenges and succeeding in them. The difference here has not to be of intellectual capacity, but it takes more self confidence than knowledge to not be intimidated by challenges life throws on you.
Ethical values that help make the world more peaceful. It is in the habit of uneducated to spring up on arguments and cause harm to others and most to himself. Education would rather channel your temper towards a more productive and peaceful goal. While no nation would be at crisis, it would be only a more peaceful world without wars and battles.
Adapting to newer techniques for productivity. There’s a reason why scientists are being paid in billions of dollars to build machinery that decreased the need for man power. It is however impossible to reap the benefits of that machinery has it to be used by those who have no knowledge of how to operate the machine for better productivity.
A Healthier Lifestyle and living. Remember the world before anti-biotic happened? Or vaccines? Or sanitary napkins? Now place yourself where education is a luxury. Would you be aware of the medical or lifestyle finds which help detect and cure a disease. Are you aware that almost every person is allergic to 5 foods in his lifetime which may cause auto immune diseases? An educated person would know his health, live longer and healthier by resorting to healthier alternatives.
No more a fool: Keeping your own mind. An educated person would listen to all, and do what suits him best. It is highly impossible to fool an educated person for it would take reasoning and logic to get him in the trap. Education keeps you from being trapped in advisories that are no more fruitful than digging your house for the pot of gold.
Keeping up with evolutions. You cannot keep up with evolutions unless you are aware of them. Awareness comes from Education. Imagine a world without WhatsApp! Was life really that hard before WhatsApp happened? Maybe not, but it certainly made life easier. This was only a grain of salt in what I’d say is an ocean of evolutions, all in one way or the other made to simplify your life.
Reasoning against the illogical. You’d never believe anything without a reason, if only you have a reason for it. Take for example the inability of uneducated farmers to examine and analyse the quality or fertility of soil for a particular harvest and later regret and believe that the rain gods were displeased with them. They’d spend more on rituals to please the Rain God than they would to increase soil quality. If only they knew. Hence in order to survive in this cruel and selfish society, education is very important.
Nations commitment in the aspects of education: Implementation of Laws and Government set policies and implement laws and budgets that have national implications for children’s education. For these to be effective, they need to be aligned with human and cold rights and must be developed with the active and meaningful participation of children and communities. They must be committed to transforming national systems and structures to help ensure that all children can claim their right to a full education. They must work with public authorities, and strengthen their capacity to put in place legal frameworks, policies, infrastructure, budgets and systems that provide quality, inclusive education for all in development and emergency settings.
Importantly, they must partner with communities, civil society organizations and governments to improve children’s and communities’ meaningful participation in developing policies and setting budgets. This extends to working with partners, including children and young people, to advocate and campaign for key educational reforms that can have far – reaching effects on children’s futures.
Equal access to Education: We are committed to ensuring that every girl and boy has access to an education and that they are never denied this right. We believe every child has a right to enroll in education.
The government must partner with education institutions, other organizations and communities to ensure education for all children. This includes developing and supporting formal as well as non-formal initiatives for children and young people who are out of school, facilitating community early-learning initiatives and providing remedial support for children with learning difficulties. The nation must also stand alongside and support communities, parents, children and young people to mobilize and advocate for more inclusive, gender- sensitive and supportive school and community cultures.
The nation must be working in alliance with families, communities and education institutions; we support the development of relevant education infrastructures, opportunities and support for all girls and boys to access and complete a quality age-appropriate education. This includes supporting alternative non-formal education programs for out-of-school children and young people, their re-entry into the formal system and strengthening the capacity of communities to implement early-learning initiatives.
Children and young people have a right to a quality education – one that is safe, child-friendly and includes a broad range of life experiences and learning processes. Their education should promote human rights and gender equality, be fully inclusive and be adapted to meet children’s diverse needs. We believe this is core to ensuring children can enjoy a long-term positive future.
Nation is dedicated to providing a quality learning environment for children that provides them with a meaningful and relevant education and supports them to develop to their full potential. They must work closely with education providers to ensure all children to have relevant curriculums, receive appropriate teaching and learning resources and that they can enjoy safe, supportive, and inclusive learning environments. To achieve this, the government is committed to ensuring there are sufficient teachers who have the knowledge, skills and attitude to provide this, and that they have the capacity and resources to respond to learners’ different needs, particularly those with disabilities.
The nation must empower children, parents and education authorities to prevent and respond to all forms of violence in and around schools and help ensure children can claim their right to a safe learning environment.
Children and young people have a right to participate in how their education is governed and how decisions about their education are made. They have a right to influence their learning so that they can benefit from a just, equitable and quality education. While governments and public authorities are responsible, as duty bearers, for promoting and fulfilling children’s right to education, parents, teachers and local leaders have a duty to support children to participate more fully in this process. We are committed to working with education systems and institutions to ensure they are more accountable for their own performance, and that they are more open and responsive to the voices of children, youth and their communities in generating long-term changes to education.
Education is absolutely beneficial for the society in whole. It is a lifelong process of each person that need to be reinforced throughout life. However we need an educational system that would eradicate illiteracy and may provide the common man an access not only to basic education but also higher and technical education. So that there would be peace and harmony in the nation.
