Fr. Maria Joseph Adaikala Raj V.
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action”- Herbert Spencer. Education encompasses both imparting and acquiring knowledge, proper conduct and technical competency. It focuses on the cultivation of skills, trades or professions, as well as mental, moral and aesthetic development.
In India, since early days, education was through the Guru-Shishya system. Knowledge was handed down from one generation to the next through the oral tradition. However, education was limited to the higher castes, creating a division and imbalance in society. By the 18th cent., during the British rule, education was open to all classes of society.
Ironically, today, there are millions of Indians who are still illiterate! Has India failed in providing education to all?
In certain parts of the country, girls are still not allowed to attend school. Due to poverty, many children are forced into child labour. Government schools are not maintained systematically and do not offer a good education environment to the children. On the other hand, private schools run a business by selling education.
We seem to have come a full circle with education once again offered only to those who can afford it. If this continues, it will only further the divide and create an imbalance in the nation.
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action”- Herbert Spencer. Education encompasses both imparting and acquiring knowledge, proper conduct and technical competency. It focuses on the cultivation of skills, trades or professions, as well as mental, moral and aesthetic development.
In India, since early days, education was through the Guru-Shishya system. Knowledge was handed down from one generation to the next through the oral tradition. However, education was limited to the higher castes, creating a division and imbalance in society. By the 18th cent., during the British rule, education was open to all classes of society.
Ironically, today, there are millions of Indians who are still illiterate! Has India failed in providing education to all?
In certain parts of the country, girls are still not allowed to attend school. Due to poverty, many children are forced into child labour. Government schools are not maintained systematically and do not offer a good education environment to the children. On the other hand, private schools run a business by selling education.
We seem to have come a full circle with education once again offered only to those who can afford it. If this continues, it will only further the divide and create an imbalance in the nation.
If the central govt. can spend crores of rupees for industrial bailout, why the govt cant spend a little more than the annual budget for underprivileged children for their upliftment. Even after five decades there are millions of rural children who do not have access even to primary schools...
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I agree with you completely.It was nice becoming familiar with your feelings. Hope to read more insights similar to this in future..
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James (J.J.)
India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school.as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries?...
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