Education Should No Longer Be Imparting of Knowledge
"Education should no longer be mostly imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities". Montessori.M (1946/1989)
Education for a new world: Clio press
“We must turn to the child as the key to the fate of our future life” (http://www.montessorisynergies.com/synergies/transformation/wisdom-of-montessori) [Accessed 5th May, 2013]
The above quotation shall be explored & revealed in the further contents of this essay. To begin with, let us first start with a brief current scenario of education in our society.
Current scenario of education
“The school must mean something else than a place of instruction, where the one teaches the many, with pain on both sides, an effort carrying with it little success”. (To Educate the Human Potentials, Chapter 18, Page 78)
The schools today exist to transmit knowledge though teachers and the role of the students is to absorb this knowledge and get awarded as per their marks. The education today that we have in our society is primarily interested in defining the curriculum and establishing high standards. The focus on the needs of the individual learner is hardly seen. The issues such as how the children actually want to learn, how they need to be taught, what are they actually interested in learning about are considered irrelevant.
Need of our society
The need of our world today is a society that has peace, patience, tolerance, happiness, health, nonviolence, betterment of the mankind, safety, non-corruption, no poverty, and no racial discrimination. It needs a man who is active, attentive, confident, curious, expressive, helpful, honest, innovative, judgmental, observant, organized orientated, patient & socially active.
Who is a human being?
A human being is a unified personality who comes into being from a child through the years of infancy, toddlerhood, preschool & adolescence. Ultimately, child is the one who produces the man. The child before
Education for a new world: Clio press
“We must turn to the child as the key to the fate of our future life” (http://www.montessorisynergies.com/synergies/transformation/wisdom-of-montessori) [Accessed 5th May, 2013]
The above quotation shall be explored & revealed in the further contents of this essay. To begin with, let us first start with a brief current scenario of education in our society.
Current scenario of education
“The school must mean something else than a place of instruction, where the one teaches the many, with pain on both sides, an effort carrying with it little success”. (To Educate the Human Potentials, Chapter 18, Page 78)
The schools today exist to transmit knowledge though teachers and the role of the students is to absorb this knowledge and get awarded as per their marks. The education today that we have in our society is primarily interested in defining the curriculum and establishing high standards. The focus on the needs of the individual learner is hardly seen. The issues such as how the children actually want to learn, how they need to be taught, what are they actually interested in learning about are considered irrelevant.
Need of our society
The need of our world today is a society that has peace, patience, tolerance, happiness, health, nonviolence, betterment of the mankind, safety, non-corruption, no poverty, and no racial discrimination. It needs a man who is active, attentive, confident, curious, expressive, helpful, honest, innovative, judgmental, observant, organized orientated, patient & socially active.
Who is a human being?
A human being is a unified personality who comes into being from a child through the years of infancy, toddlerhood, preschool & adolescence. Ultimately, child is the one who produces the man. The child before
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