Purpose of Education

Actually yesterday this one started in a very strange manner, we were watching news at our room… then I came to know exams of CBSE board have been started… First of all I want to wish all the best to students who are appearing in board exams this year… And then suddenly a question came into my mind which I want to share with you all... What is the purpose of education? Why we invest around 15 years to earn education …? I think first most answer would be to earn bread & butter … Is this ALL? Most of us would be agree with no that’s not all…Idealistically emphasize that education should produce citizens who are politically informed, environmentally conscious, and capable of critical thinking… Is our education system doing so???

I think no, since last few years I am habitual to news of suicide of students why so... why our child is not capable in bearing little pressure?? In modern age we have converted life a race, everyday we start racing with everybody, even with ourselves. It’s we who forget real meaning of education; we want our child must be first in his/her class or age group. We force him/her various ways comparing with other kids, even sometime with punishment also … But it’s not only parents fault alone… somewhere structure of education system is also responsible for parents this behavior… to get admission for higher education like in engineering or medical our kid has to fight with lots of thing like percentage cutoff, reservation etc, etc, etc … as parents we want to give our kids better future so we pressurize them to get more and more percentage so that by no other means they should left to get admission, in this race we get people with Good degree and may be with great percentage in their mark sheets but we loose great thinkers and good human beings. I would say for human society that’s a great loss. Education should produce citizens who have the reading, math, and science skills to meet the evolving needs of society... The chief purpose of education is to help towards filling in framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual posse… to study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the cause of those results which appear before our eyes as historical event not in just remembering birth day of some ancient King… the art if reading and studying consist of remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential , remembering that ancient kings birth date can give us good marks in mark sheet but that will not give us great IAS , good politician and engineers of human race.. I think we should re consider our priorities what our society needs in future … and re-architect our education system to make worth our childhood learnings And this is my suggestion to our students also; guys never ever give up … If everybody will be broken in single defeat we would never have Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Alva Edison, Sir Isaac Newton and many more … Every defeat consists of several lessons for future success...