Education for making of complete individual

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Damodarshree 2012 Submitted By: Nilanjan Bhattacharya

Education for the making of a complete individual

I am born into a definitive Bengali middle class family and I have inherited theopinion that, education is the most profitable investment one should go for as italways grows.Education is the basis for the learning process, and like all basis, it is tooabstract in nature and hence, I cannot define education in precise and absoluteterms. But still everyone has to admit that education plays a vital role in aperson's overall development.I prefer to call education an infinite process, it has no beginning and it hasno end, as one cannot say when people started to learn. The abstractness ofeducation is quite visible as one cannot answer that how or why we started tolearn, what was the immediate cause that motivated us to learn.It would be very unjust to say that education is merely, mastering some art, orit is a gateway to employment, that create means for earning money.

Education is a channel via which knowledge is imparted, and knowledge is thecause that widens our mental horizon. It gives us power to think rationallyand act wisely.Education creates a wholistic environment, where giver of education islearning too and evolving.The learner are trying to see the perspective of theeducator, hence increasing his own pool of ideas.It is very interesting to observe that education creates a sense of confidence,aswell as it forces us to doubt. This not a contradictory nature of education butshows that,education builds a rational sense in an individual. This rational senseguides us to take decisions and act. If there would have been no rational sense

in us, then we would have been guided by the The Pied Piper of Hamelin andwould have fallen off the cliff.Education bridges all the barriers,it makes us appreciate the entire learningprocess. It makes us understand about our past and it gives us a vision to moveforward to the future.Limiting education to schools,colleges or other formal institute is trivializing themagnanimous image of education. I consider that we are subject to educationfrom the time of our birth,when parents try that the moaning sounds made byan agonistic baby should resemble to the sound of Ma or Baba or when achild is scolded for not doing things properly. Education is also accompanied with

sense of understanding and humility,that is very important for one's life .If education can not make us think, or give us an insight,then it should be calledset of instructions rather than education. The idea behind educating one personshould not be levying his own thinking or point of view on others. It should beabout sharing knowledge and that would make the learner a thinker. Followingset of instructions is attribute of a computer or a robot and not of a humanbeing. Education always makes one liberated and free person.Observing a fellow human,understanding his thought is also a part of education.This sort of education helps a man to be helpful towards other person. It makesone feel that he is not only for himself,but his actions also affect the people who

are associated with him. The interaction with other people makes one social,sothat he can build a friendly atmosphere with other fellow beings. We can alsosay that education makes a man a congenial creature.


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Learning from past experiences is also a form of education which makes a mancautious of all the mistakes that he has committed. This learning helps him tounderstand the effects of action on certain situation he faces. This sort oflearning improves a man. I used the word improves intentionally becausewhen a person acts he always thinks his action is right. If a person knows hisaction would cause negative effect he would not act,no action can ever rise fromvoid conception. This kind of learning improves one's previous knowledge. Itmakes a person evolutionary and more open to changes. If education does notmake a man open to changes then the man would soon perish, because changeis law of nature and with time he would be obsolete. Education makes oneimmune to obsolescence.Education is a rigorous process,learning is a duty of the educatee as much aseducating is the duty of educator. The mutual respect of duties ,makes a persondisciplined so that each can perform their due roles.If education would have been,just reading books or completing a course then

every one would have been educated in no time. The completeness would havebeen achieved by a person, the way we download a song or surf the internet.Learning demands patience and practice. Patience does not means justwaiting for the time to lapse,and practice does not mean repeatingsomething that educator has imparted.Scrutinizing one's work and improving it,is actually practice,andpatience is a form of determination which is required to iterate throughthe scrutinizing cycle until the desired perfection is achieved.Practice and patience is both cause and effect of education because will ofgaining education is necessary. Education exhibits recursive nature.

One of the notable aspect of education is that everyone is eligible foreducation. There is no age boundary for education. When one has a desire tobe educated, he can seek education from a teacher. It is a moral duty on part ofteacher to educate anyone without any discrimination if one wants to beeducated.Even self education can be achieved the way Ekalavya a character inMahabarata achieved when he was denied education because of his low birth.So, the will to be educated plays a very vital role in one's education.Moral education or value based education is taught to children at home andschools. This education is very important too, because,it forms the base of one's

consciousness and conduct. A person with high moral value has a strongcharacter. This strength in character makes a man bearer of all kind of situationwithout being subject to dysfunctional rationale. If education doesn't providemoral values and self culture then it does not amount to education but it canonly be simply called commands to be followed.The basic goal for all sorts of education should be to build an insight within thestudents. It should make them morally ,socially aware and cultured. If educationcannot strengthen the inner will and self disciple then, it will loose it's primeplace in it's role played as an overall developer of an individual.Nowadays,there is such a rat race for existence,such cut throat competition

exists in our society. It seems that one prefers to master at some trade whetherit is business or engineering. The individuals are of opinion that one has toeducate themselves in order to be more employable.


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People now prefer to educate themselves as per the need of market.This trend threatens the purpose of education, as it is meant to fill one'sown void and not to satisfy the need of market. If one tries to fill void ofmarket at cost of his own educational feeds, then ones completeness is atstake. By this, one may satisfy his materialistic needs, but his esoteric and Metaphysical needs will go unsatisfied.I'll share a couple examples,which were professed to me at school, and I believethose examples are unintentional misguides to the children.One, teacher always say that one should guide own self to a specific aim, theway the horses are guided by the eye strap. Probably intended virtue to belearned from this is hard-work and perseverance,but side effect interpretationcan also be drawn that,move to your goal,see nothing apart from it,trampleeverything that comes in your way.Another malpractice according to me exists where teacher always lays stress onstudents to study texts as prescribed in syllabus. If education is limited by

syllabus then our thinking sphere would be as constricted as toad ofpond.In my perception marks based assessment also hampers education and learningprocess,although we never fail to admit the fact that,marks sheet prove nothingbut we still use marks sheet as a tool of judgment for individual's caliber. Soeducation that was supposed to be an impetus for overall development of theeducatee is sidelined because one would always aim to score marks at first placethan to educate himself. This change in priority may make a man successful inone dimension but life has a multidimensional outlook and everything is to bebalanced.

I would share a global incidence,which makes us realize that our uni-dimensionalthinking can be very harmful. Just after the industrial revolution in Europe,theEuropean countries tried to colonize entire world in order to build market fortheir finished goods. This came at heavy cost of wars and creation of third worldcountries whose natural resources was squandered by the Europeans. Still thesecountries are trying to reestablish themselves. Now, globally countries areworking together to uplift them.Despite of having knowledge about technicalities of business warfare,politicseconomics etc. Europe at that time was still uneducated,as they lackedknowledge about universal harmony or mutual respect for humanity because

they treated everyone in a beastly way.In modern world,we do not care for nature and environment in general,althoughwe study Environmental Education as a mandatory subject in all courses. Thisalso proves a point that just reading or studying a subject is not enough toeducate us. If we would have been educated then we would have been takingactive steps to protect our environment.Till so far I started off discussing what is education or what all qualities should alearning process instill in one to qualify as education, I shared a few problemthat prevails in the process of imparting education. Some real world illustrationwere taken to prove that still we are not educated enough to call ourselves

complete.In this closing segment I will share my own imagination that how a completeindividual would be after attaining education.


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An educated person would be a sublime person who would respect every oneand there would be no vanity in him because of his knowledge.He should be skillful enough in the trade in which he aims to master so that hisskill and working potential be a service to mankind. To serve humanity skillsneed not be tangible, for example both Buddha and Edward Jenner did a greatservice to society by enlightening our spirit and protecting our body by vaccinesrespectively. All services provided by educated individuals are equally important.An educated person is well aware of his rights and meticulous towards hisduties. Being aware of one's right and performing one's duty towards society isan important aspect of education.Being just and unbiased are also qualities that is instilled in one by education,these are key qualities which governs our conduct with others.Education is an important aspect of our life which separates us from otheranimals of this planet. Like them we eat, sleep, excrete, respond to stimulus andreproduce. Only the education factor places us at the top of animal kingdom,

that is what makes us human, as well as lets us dream about completeness ofourselves so that we can make world a better place to live, where everyone loveeach other and live in harmony with our fellow beings and nature.Only education is a means that can bridge all the gaps present in our society. Itcan make all of us tied in a single thread of love.The following poem by Rabindranath Tagore tells the problems that persist dueto lack of education.

Where the mind is without fearWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragmentsBy narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truthWhere tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its wayInto the dreary desert sand of dead habitWhere the mind is led forward by theeInto ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

This poem has always been the source of my imagination of a completeindividual.

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