‘Education’ a single word with a huge
and deep meaning. Education is what makes us a better person. Often people
think that studying and bagging in a few degrees makes them educated but no, it
makes them literate but not educated. Education in my opinion, is that source
which develops us as a person i.e. overall development and helps us deal with
our life in a better way. And many times, we find a person who is highly
qualified but lacks proper education, fails to be successful. Hence, education
is important and more than that a ‘good’ education is important.
What is ‘Good’ Education? Where does it
come from?
It comes from a good environment which
includes our school, college or any institution to which we belong and of
course from our parents who are our first teachers. It also comes to us from
our culture, our religion, our lifestyle and thus everything around us effects
everything within us.
In changing times and with increasing
challenges, the need and importance of education is greater and needs to
constantly develop. There are a large number of people who are working hard to
make the education system excellent and better day by day. Promoting excellence
in education is the need of the hour and the most important contribution of
people working towards excellence in education is to make sure they understand
how to do it, work on the student teacher relationship, provide education after
understanding the learning style and ability of the students. Imbibing certain
qualities in people right from their childhood such as making the most of the
available time, absorbing what’s been taught, using the knowledge in the right
place at the right time, also having an understanding of how to do it so that
the importance of education is understood and prioritized at every step of
life. Every parent, teacher, student, school and institution together make it a
system and each one associated has the responsibility of making it better with
their skills, hard work, and zeal including constantly learning and adapting to
new techniques.
Promoting excellence in education makes
it more qualitative and smoothens the progress of the system itself. By
adapting new teaching techniques, using innovative and interactive methods,
learning can be made more interesting and thus more long lasting. This allows
us to teach more and them to learn more, thus proving that only constant
learning can create excellence in education.
Education is a not a one-time process,
we can learn from anything and anyone around us. When we become truly able to
learn from situations around us, then the process of growth becomes clear and
the path to wisdom appears. Learning is a lifelong process, but it all starts
with a thought "I want to learn". They say, 'life is the best
teacher', true that, it does teach us the best of lessons. Also, everyone in
our life is a teacher. There is a lot to learn from our elders and their
experiences, lot to learn from our younger generation, a lot to learn from
animals and it goes on.
Imagine
there is a fisherman who have spent his entire life in the middle of a sea for
earning his livelihood through fishing and there is a professor with multiple
Ph. Ds. who have spent his entire life studying and researching about oceans and
seas. Whom do you think will survive a storm if they are stuck in the middle of
a sea? One has purely practical knowledge about waters, waves, handling
climatic changes etc. while the other one has only theoretical knowledge about
the same. Because learning something sitting in a room and learning the same on
the field are different exposures. But to actually survive a storm may be both
the fisherman and the professor need each other and that’s the same relation
between education and knowledge. Both can exist without each other but the
combination of both will definitely help survive.
To
understand the difference between uneducated and educated people, it is
necessary to know the difference between knowledge and half knowledge, to
understand the difference between being a literate and being educated, to
understand the difference between having knowledge and having information about
something. Those who think they are educated and stop learning have incomplete knowledge
and this is worse than having no knowledge. A person who is uneducated will be
willing to listen and understand, making it appear that uneducated people are
willing to learn more, but that is only when those who are literate, choose not
to learn further.
Also,
the most impressionable ages in the life of a person, are the ones between 4
and 17, and this is where the education (not books and exams), comes in the
form of parents, grandparents, friends, classmates, teachers and everyone
around. This is where values can be taught, and made to last a lifetime.
Sports, playing, celebrating festivals, listening to stories, asking questions,
being able to apply the lessons taught at school in real life i.e. learning in
experimental, experiential and practical manner like learning science through
cooking or by doing simple household chores, taking tuition to juniors, these
all have an impact in the future of the child.
Many years we lived till now, a lot we learned - personally & professionally, what next? Share your knowledge. Knowledge is something like the more we share the more we get. Let us care and share and see the wonders happen.
“To
get the best, give the best”
WE LIVE ONLY ONCE #WLOO
-Preneeja Peelukhana
