What Does It Mean To Be Educated

If children are to become educated, what must they learn, and why?

Education’s objective is to help people to learn the concepts of socialisation and of citizenship into a society, ultimately preparing individuals for entry into the workforce. At the same time education fulfils a purely intrinsic need for edification. On every level the purpose of education is that each and every person—both within the collective whole of humanity and individually as a vitally necessary and fully whole and contributing part—ultimately reach the full realisation of what it means to be human.

The world around us consists of more than that which our five senses can detect (see, hear, feel, touch, taste) – i.e. the physical things. There are also those elements which we feel with our soul (our feelings and emotions), those which we sense around us (our perceptions and thoughts) and those in which we believe (God or a higher being) – i.e. the metaphysical.
Awareness and knowledge of both the physical and metaphysical states is fundamental to making sense of our existence and should be incorporated
It must consider the needs of society, and the members and cultures within that society. There are potential barriers to curriculum development and these must be balanced to avoid narrowing the exposure children are entitled to. Within every society there are divisions – intellectual, financial, religious and ethnic just to name a few. These divisions must not unduly influence curriculum development, nor should the relatively new concept of being “politically correct”. The content of the curriculum must transcend these divisions, and focus on the concept of educating all people, rather than being concerned about a select few becoming offended at the inclusion of a particular belief, aspect or