Education is Essential

Education is a Powerful weapon that can be used to change the world. It works as a crucial tool for the development of any nation and also serves as a key mechanism towards its success and prosperity. Although the educational systems of different countries are not similar but they do share a common goal to provide its citizens a suitable and proper learning. As the most valuable treasure one can possess, education has always played a key role in the society enabling it to flourish both socially and economically, helping its people to gain recognition and respect.

Education and its methods are changing and we need to follow and accept that change. Going to school and getting and education is something that many teenagers today take for granted?  We are going to be sorry if we don’t prepare our students better for the skills they need now for a better future. The process today is very tedious and boring. The child has to cram up and concentrate on getting good marks in the tests and board examinations. This goose and berry chase does not strengthen the base instead gives enormous stress and pressure which robs them of quality classroom time in between the teachers and students. Today education should be focused on how to live in the world on the basis of an idealistic ethical behaviour with a good moral code of conduct. The basics of what is required to survive and thrive in whatever field should be taught and emphasised. If a person is observant and focused success is guaranteed.

The main focus was on the basic education is to strengthen the foundation of the child, but one thing is certain: today’s generation is not receiving a quality education in most schools. Trading of schools has become a common phenomenon. Schools and colleges are just a money minting sources only. Overcrowded classrooms are of concern for it is difficult for the teachers to give proper time as well as attention to every child. Today if any teacher is teaching just because it is a profession i.e. a means to earn his daily bread and butter, there the child is also just studying because it’s the need of the hour and a normal procedure of his upbringing has to be completed. This paradox is complicated and does not help in proper upbringing at all. The child spends the entire day in school, tuitions, completing homework and then learning due to which he gets no time to play, joke and be merry, Hence all the relaxation activities and fun times is mercilessly snatched away. Since the very childhood, a child is unnecessarily burdened with the weight of his career giving a total shut down to a childhood which could have been a his memorable moments in older days to keep him up in high spirits.

Education and Knowledge, though are interrelated but are not the same. Where education gives a degree there knowledge makes a personality. Education is not all about studying and getting good marks. Marks are just numbers obtained in life but real education is the knowledge gathered by discovering new things which we don't know about and enhance it by our observation, discussion reading and many such ways. An educated and knowledgeable person has the ability to differentiate between right and wrong or good and evil. It is the foremost responsibility of a society to educate all its citizens.  Everyone is a citizen but few are responsible citizen, in the same way everyone is educated but few are knowledgeable. Special focus on women’s education is needed because the knowledge and empowerment of one woman can bring about a change in a family and then the society as a whole. It is the uneducated and illiterate people who think women are not entitled to education.

The Right to Education is the right of every individual and by education which includes a responsibility to provide basic education for individuals who have not completed primary education. In addition to this, access to education encompasses the obligation to rule out discrimination at all levels of the educational system, to set minimum standards and to improve quality of education. Better education can make a person more civilized and useful for the society. One cannot image a prosperous life without appropriate education. A person becomes perfect with education as he is not only gaining something from it, but also contributing to the growth of a nation. We all should realise the importance of education and aim to ensure that each citizen of our nation is educated.

Role of Guardian and Parents in imparting knowledge.

Today when both the parents are working, they prefer to put their loved children in a crèche or day schools ensuring that their loved one is not left neglected. This no doubt gives them both an opportunity to earn for their family and permits them the flexibility to run a home comfortably.

But, is this enough? On one hand the parents are ready to push, shove, and jostle against one another at the gates of the best schools in town to secure their child’ best education there they hardly find time to spend with their own offspring. Education not only moulds the new generation, but it also reflects a society’s fundamental assumptions.

Need and Importance of education

We need to recognize that the knowledge, skills and productivity of our growing young and dynamic work force forms the backbone of our economy. To reap the  benefits of such a young work force, we need to implement the reforms in the education system and also bring forth new factors of production, namely knowledge, skills and  technology which have the ability to unleash the productive frontiers of the economy in the most efficient and dynamic way. Besides, taking a leaf from the western hemisphere, we should try to become ‘knowledge economy’ to promote inclusive growth.  The three major areas to be focused to ensure that our education system is sustainable and meets global standards:

i.          Quality of Education – in terms of infrastructure, teachers, accreditation, etc.

ii.         Affordability of Education – ensuring poor and deserving students are not denied education.

iii.        Ethics in Education – avoiding over-commercialization of education system.

The most persistent problem is the unavailability of money or inadequate funding of education programs or systems. The concept of education faces a bleak future characterized by stagnation, insensitivity, inadequate facilities and personnel. Is this what we should be contented with for Public funds are insufficient to cover education costs, and schools throughout India experience shortages of teachers, books, and basic facilities. Retention of both students and teachers is alarmingly low, particularly in many rural areas too.

Gender discrimination also keeps attendance rates for girls far below that of boys in the same age group. For girls, the ultimate goal is often portrayed as marriage, and not the attainment of a solid educational background. Often, families cannot afford to pay for the schooling of all their children so parents frequently decide to prematurely end schooling for their daughters. For many impoverished families, schooling is viewed as an impracticable financial burden, allowing them to reserve money for more pressing needs.

Financial problems need to be overcome, legislation needs to take on a new perspective and approach to education, teachers need to grasp the changes and embrace them. We also need to understand the young generation and need to accept their individuality and uniqueness. They are different just the way we were different from our parents and we need to deal with understanding. Education is a big social responsibility of every nation where education of women should be must because the empowerment and knowledge of a woman can revolutionise her family first and then the society. 

Not only restricted to study hard and score good results, education also means to conquer new effects towards the betterment of mankind because even one educated individual can create a big difference between wrong and right or evil and good. Though the inequalities in the standards of education are still is a major issue that needs to be solved but the importance of education cannot be left.

A good education not only teaches one the essential skills of the working world, it also prepares the mind to make sane, healthy, and intelligent decisions about any situation that one may encounter on life's journey. A good education a good educating shows character traits like: discipline, commitment, sacrifice, courage and ability. Although there are several benefits to a good education but the most important aspect is that it also effects one’s personal life enabling one to interact with people, and have an "intelligent" healthy conversation. Just DON'T ever be someone who finds education unimportant. Never stop learning or think that you know it all because the fact is that whatever knowledge we acquire cannot be stolen but is enriched if taken from others.

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