Education Part 1

Why is Education Important?

Education is not just about reading and writing but allows people to make use of it for their own advantages and to utilize knowledge for their personal growth. Also one can lead their own life without depending on others. It is not about making people literate, as literacy is entirely different from education.

Literacy is the ability to read and write, whereas education is finding out the reason behind everything and using the reading-writing skills to improve their lives. It helps countries to grow economically and flourish with prosperity. To live a flawless life, education is very important for every individual. Lets discuss what education is and the importance of education.

What is Education?

“Education is nothing but studying different kinds of subjects to gain knowledge and understanding and trying to apply it in daily life”.

Also, education is not only gaining book knowledge but also can be learned practically. Education doesn’t mean to just go to schools and colleges daily and attend exams, it is meant for gathering knowledge and relating it to our lives. Even a robot can read and write, but using knowledge wisely is what makes humans different. Education is not only for utilizing ourselves, but it can also be used to improve other peoples’ lives.

1. Other definitions of education:

• “Education is knowing about the facts of life. In every part of our life, we learn in different forms”.

• “Education is not to mug up, but to understand how to create the world around us, how to sustain it for future generations and how to develop relations for existence”.

• “Education is the only way to win the world. It is to think deeply about something till its roots and understand the intention behind it”.

• The role of education is meant for developing something new rather than relying on old innovations. One should be able to identify what he knows and what he doesn’t know.

2. Great people define education as:

Education is the ability to think, apply it in the world and to know the value of life. It isn’t limited to selfeducation, but also to spread it to every human around us. There is no end for education, as in each and every stage of human life we learn something.

It is not about learning life, but education itself is life. Also, it is the key to finding great characters hidden in every individual.

It will help us to know what harm we are doing to the world and guides us to protect the world from all dangers which are caused by human beings. This is the wealth that can be transformed from ages to ages. Importance of Education in Our Lives:

Education helps in earning money and fulfilling the basic needs of life. It can help you grow in a career and fulfill your dreams. It also helps one to set personal and career goals. Education is irrespective of caste, creed and gender, by gaining knowledge people can stand out as equal with all the other persons from different caste and creed. It is a platform to prove the equity by defeating all barriers.

Other advantages:

The importance of education for every person is to live independently and to gain freedom. It allows us to set standards of life and will provide knowledge to understand the results of wrong decisions and help to find alternative ways. Also, it will help to understand each and every individual role and responsibility to build society.

Why is Education Important for Children?

Education is important for children because they are the future of the world and they should be updated with current affairs. They are the pillars of the nation, to develop a country and the world the future should be secure and the children are the weapons to build the nation with all their knowledge and education. It helps to break the social evils like racism and poverty so each and every child must be educated. The children will stand out as future leaders to develop the nation from all the issues and hurdles.

1. Education at childhood:

Education is necessary at the childhood stage, this is the period where it provides them a chance to develop mentally, physically and develop social awareness in them. It gives them experience and confidence to face the outside world. It is a stage to explore themselves. It is the parent’s responsibility to provide them with the right education at the right age. Also, they have to find out children’s interests and accordingly have to provide education.

2. Play an important role:

The role of education in our life doesn’t only mean to give bookish knowledge to students, but also to provide different kinds of knowledge in different kinds of skills like painting, drawing, singing, etc. The mental status of children before joining the school will be different. It is the stage to motivate themselves into new human beings. They will start identifying what is good and what is bad for them. They will start analyzing, questioning and reasoning for every task. Also, they will start to learn from their mistakes. They will start fixing themselves in the competitive world.

3. Children start building goals:

If a child is enrolled in a school, he will start learning, playing and having fun with friends. While learning he will understand what position he is in acquiring knowledge and will try to slowly grab the top position. While playing he will understand the logic to win it, this way they start building goals at an early stage. But parents should understand whether their children are working only for ranks and grades or are acquiring some wisdom and knowledge. Also, parents should not judge their children’s knowledge and intelligence on their grades. The grading system in education and the expectation of parents and teachers have pressurized then to just focus on grades rather than knowledge. It is important that they are aware of the purpose of education and how it works in real life.

Why Education is Important to Society:

For a modern society, education is very important. It is the perfect stage to mould a person into a complete leader with all the human emotions, values and heritage. These days students are influenced by some of the bad events that are happening around the world, so it is necessary to develop and lead them in a perfect path.

Education helps to bring productive results:

Education these days is important as the population is increasing, the needs of people are increasing. Hence there are many firms where they require a huge number of employees to develop, so to bring productivity one should be able to gain knowledge and develop healthy competition. Also, these days women should be equally educated along with men and promote women empowerment. Education is the best platform for them to prove that they are equal to men in society.

Why Education is Important for a Country:

• People will become better citizens with education

• You will get to know the importance of voting only through education.

• It will help you to get a job.

• People can know the difference between good and bad.

• Students work hard to grow and develop themselves.

• Help in creating a better society to live in

• Becoming a respectable law-abiding citizen of the country.

• Strive for the betterment of the country

• Education will support mothers who are single or alone

• Raise the children rightly as they are the future of the country

• Solves unemployment in the country

Reasons Why Education is Important:

It gives an opportunity to learn different languages other than the mother tongue and the ability to survive anywhere in the world. Education guides you to develop as good citizens within the society. Also, it will make us know what may cause danger to others and make us aware of not causing trouble to others. We are provided with beautiful resources naturally so education will help how to preserve them, how to sustain them and gives ideas for creating alternatives.

1. Comfortable and stable life:

To have a better life and live a comfortable life, a person needs to understand the value of education. Some people think education is a waste of time, as they have their own strong success stories which usually cannot be related to everyone practically. But if a person has even a small portion of knowledge, then it is possible that they can manage their life in a better way compared to uneducated people.

2. Improvement in standard of living:

Most people think that education can lead a person to a position where he/she can fulfill all of their dreams and expectations. However, education alone can’t make one successful unless he/she works really hard to get to that position. If a person starts dedicating himself/ herself to quality of education then it is possible that the result of such dedication will be fruitful.

3. Provides safety and security:

If a person wants a life with safety and security, then he/she needs to understand the value of education in our daily life. To lead a life of safety and security the person needs to take active participation in educational activities. These educational activities will provide them the knowledge which can help them live a better life.

4. Equality:

This is the only way where a person of any caste and region will maintain a respectable position with the help of education. There are different kinds of personalities who have different opinions but still acquire success. All these can take place with the help of education. It maintains equality between people even if they are holders of different sets of opinions.

5. Provides confidence:

Education is only a matter of thinking which can provide change in one’s level of confidence. Sometimes it happens that people experience embarrassment because of lack of education. And to overcome such embarrassment, people need to come forward and accept the benefits of education.

6. Prevents unlikely events:

Sometimes when we are unaware of things it can create a certain level of change in our life. Therefore, it would be advisable that a person needs to educate himself/herself about the things they are unaware of. And eventually, education can make us self reliant and confident enough to face such unlikely situations.

Conclusion:

Living in a society, one should have knowledge of their rights, laws and regulations. This knowledge will help to build boundaries around us to follow the rules so that we have a peaceful life. Education will help to interact with different kinds of persons and exchange knowledge and ideas and live in harmony. To be an active participant in society and to gain respect from the world, one should always learn new things.