Importance of Education

Education is a complex subject which appears to elude definition. With the passage of time it has gathered new dimensions and stirred the human mind in unpredictable ways. Intelligent and well-meaning men have, at al tlimes, attempted to define the ideals of education in their own way. While some have emphasized its physical or moral aspects, other have laid greater stress on its intellectual or social role. John Stuart Mill holds: Whatever helps to shape the human being; to make the human being what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not -- is part of his education. " A more satisfactory definition comes to us from Sir Richard Livingstone. He believes that education must include "a vocational element , a social or, as the Greeks would have called it, a political element and a spiritual element... education must help men to achieve these three ends."

Education is a continuous process and it aims at the total development of the individual. The process begins with the home and progresses through school. If parents and teachers work in harmony. The mind of the child blossoms. His good and useful powers are developed in an agreeable way and his evil and useless propensities are checked. As he moves up in the scale of time and receptivity, he begins to understand the full meaning and purpose of a liberal education.

One of the main essentials of education is to provide the individual with the capacity for logical objective thinking. Without this skill it is difficult to conceive of any one's acquiring and continually expanding the knowledge which is considered indispensable to an educated man. According to Albert Einstein, "The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgement should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge, " An educational system which is in proactive bookish and remote from life will evidently be lopsided and serve no genuine purpose. "In the conditions of modern life the rule