WHAT SHOULD EDUCATION DO?
To put it in a few words - education should make each individual an
ideal citizen of the world. There should be no imperfection, no-narrow-mindedness,
no alienation, no enmity, no inclination towards conquest of land and people,
no desire to become imperialists, no unfair attempt to claim superiority, no
greed for more wealth and material advancement, no trust in superior weapons to
defeat others, no love for being masters rather than colleagues, no attempt to
treat people of other countries as strangers, and finally no assertion that might
is right, and only your truth is the best truth.
Some good quotes on education say:
*The great end of education is, to discipline
rather than to furnish the mind ; to train it to the use of its own powers,
rather than fill it with the accumulations of others. ---Tryon Edwards,
American theologian (1809-94).
*Education does
not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them
to behave as they do not behave.—John Ruskin, English critic, essayist and
social reformer (1819-1900)
*Knowledge does
not comprise all which is contained in large term of education. The feelings
are to be disciplined; the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a
profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated
under all circumstances . All this is
comprised in education. --- Daniel Webster, American orator and statesman (1782-1852).
Finally, these
words of Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist, (1879-1955) best
known for his theory of relativity:
It is not enough
to teach man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind of useful machine but
not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student
acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling of values. He must acquire a
vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise he ---with his
specialized knowledge ---more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a
harmoniously developed person. He must learn to understand the motives of human
beings, their illusions, and their sufferings in order to acquie a proper
relationship to individual fellow-men and to the community.
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G.R.Kanwal
23 September 2025
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