Purpose Of Education
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Purpose Of Education
The purpose of our modern education: The delicate tools necessary for our
intellectual workshop are achieved by schooling. I suspect that our best tools
are realized rather automatically, but if there is to be outside influence,
then, best it is done early, as the human mind matures all too rapidly. Children
are not consumed with anxiety to learn anything; least of all has it ever
crossed their minds that they must learn English. How shall we teach it to them,
when the few of us who have begun to know what it is know it to be a issue of
accommodations, a thing with which order, method, and all that the developing
mind first apprehends and rests upon have nothing to do with a single word. A
kind of miraculous flowering of man's still unconscious wisdom, preserved to us
as a compensation for our many blunderings, as a reward for our patience in
confusion and our fundamental faith in life. Education might be defined as a
social process by which, skills and beliefs, attitudes and ideas of the previous
generations are passed to the new generation; it is a process, which is
necessary for the maintenance, achievement and development of man in society.
Gerstner States, “in the public schools we have clung tenaciously to the ideas
and techniques of earlier decades and even previous centuries,” proving that
each generation depends on the preceding generation. This definition assumes a
biological view of society, one that grows and evolves with each new generation
depending on the growth of previous generations. We all come into this world
uniform, and, from the start, we are obliged to turn to others; and while we
need a lot of help when we are young, nature has compensated by building into
the young a susceptibility to learning. So, no matter what one's view is of what
an educational system should be, most will agree, best to start in while young.
What is the first lesson to be? What each individual needs to know is the
difference between what is naturally right and what is naturally wrong. The
second lesson to be learned, is, that the individual is better off doing what is
naturally right. How does one teach morals? This is an old dilemma, the teaching
of virtue. It is a dilemma largely because virtue is immeasurable. Virtue is
instilled likely by repeated actions, a process of trial and error, beginning at
the mother's knee and to be continued by all those with whom the child has close
connections, and this would certainly include the child...
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