The entire world is in the process educating each other. More specially to generate the growing up generation as best men and women to the future world, technologies keep on updating the methodologies of lifestyle. They want every newborn child to fill up their minds with information and stuff them with knowledge.
Education is a system which was formulated centuries back by great legends who found that life would be better with education. All the three state of life: Past, Present, and Future, has nothing to tell so very interestingly, without the influence of education.
‘Education is the most important factor that differentiated Man from Animals and Man is praiseworthy for that. Sometimes our innovative Man, along with his beautiful introduction of a new system, unknowingly he tends to create some negative effects too, which is when absent, the system would move on to its best achievements.
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This article is about analyzing the definition of education at a different stage and to create a motivation to redefine the system of education to its best as never before.
The Meaning of Education by Great Legends
‘There are few words which even the dictionaries would find hard to explain exactly!… one such word is Education’.
There are so many people who had contributed their experience as a definition of education in the past. What they understand and realize during their life is what education to them. It is obvious that everybody in this world has to learn something for his/her life before leaving it. And be sure… Life is to Learn!
Educating oneself includes learning of skills and facts, learning through personal commitments and learning by happenings around. One could be confident enough to point out the word ‘Education’, which has the top number of definitions. A person, who has committed himself to his learning to the full, will understand what education is.
Education is the term that keeps on updating its meaning and definition as the years pass by. A tremendous change is been identified from the past system of education to the present system of education and surely a great will be happening in the future too. Every change that is dealt either with experience or with technology, education is the biggest hand that works over this task.
May the best definition of education that can be acknowledged at all times could be given as, “The Rock that is flexible for all generations and for all people to stand on high”. The base of education is strong like a rock and it stays firm and open like a platform for all centuries of people.
Education of the Past
“By knowingly or unknowingly, Education was under practice from the time people began to work with their brain”.
The early system of education has a lot more to be defined in the past. That not only comprise of syllabus designed within a book. They cannot be explained within a few papers posted inside the book. They are far beyond a textbook and farther ahead of an invention of papers and pencils.
The following are some of the ideas keenly observed from the past system of education and are listed below:
Education by Divine and Peace:
‘Divinity with Peace built Humanity with Humans!’
‘Believing in God might be a foolish thing; but, it was that foolishness that credited a set of complete morals as compulsory for every man’.
Though learning to get all the basic needs of life was the first concept to learn, framing the human life to live with ‘Discipline’ is the extraordinary foundation of Education. In Olden days, those people who were filled with wisdom were respected as educated.
How come it is possible for them in those days where one could find nothing of what you call as education today. They sat longer time to attain wisdom and prepare themselves to educate people on the reality of life.
Buddha and Mahavira are two exemplary personalities who introduced such type of education. It was possible for them to teach the world, ‘Becoming Human is true Education’.
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Need of Education for a Kingdom
‘Education was the invisible weapon that ruled the entire world’.
During the time of the monarchy, all the Kings’ palace had great men to support the kings with suggestions through their knowledge. And the kings too would respect and accomplish their kingdom by their guidelines.
Those days’ education was in the form of wisdom that was compulsory for kings and queens who take over the responsibility of ruling the country.
Education of Life Skills
‘Inscriptions and Manuscripts are witnesses of the first thirst of education of ancient people’.
Many writers, artists, craftspeople, painters and sculptors with peculiar talents, tried their level best to bring out their knowledge to common people that would instill many good thoughts within them by their appreciable artworks. A kind of education that made people learn a lot of life skills to survive and to help to survive.
Guru Kula System of Education
‘Teacher – the Creator of a well-being, an Educator of an Education!’
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The custom of education in which the learner is made to stay along with the teacher unless he is certified with the best comment of values from his teacher. The system of education in which the teachers were paid with much of respect and offerings in return and were placed next to God.
The teaching which molded the learner with complete good qualities to live his human life. No other system can compete with such a system until the date of creating a human by learning ‘How to be an obedient human’.
Education of 19th Century
‘Schools became Temple; Teachers became God; Teaching became Devotion’.
The building of a particular place with the name ‘School’ was formulated that every child can be given education in a commonplace. Special people were appointed as teachers and teaching were concentrated more. This was the time where education slowly spread among the common people.
Education was confined within four walls. The basic alphabets of their regional language and the ability of reading and writing were taught.
Education in English
‘Knowledge and Language – the two eyes of world’s Education’.
As the influence of foreign rulers increased among the nation, people felt that education would be better if in English, being the global language. Since it was an unknown language, a particular syllabus was framed and made things to memorize.
The children began learning the content categorized into many subjects. Education became more formal. The schools were motivated on scoring higher marks and learning of values became less important.
Education of the Present
‘Every present is a temporary fake environment, which you can’t find in the past and which you can’t accept in the future’.
The present education is what the current generation is undergoing. The growth of technologies and the need of a developed nation started to demand the schools to be a magical world that can convert every child to somebody great in achieving something.
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Curriculum and Co-Curriculum
‘Learning an art was once a life skill and now it has become a time pass skill’.
The previous years were having only books as the tool of education. During this period the word schooling meant as a clubbing word of two branches: Curriculum and Co-curriculum. Curriculum to feed the children with facts and knowledge; CO-curriculum to bring out the talents of every child. Both are of course essential for this modern world, to cope up with the growth of technology.
Modern Education
‘Technologies are tracking and marking the grades of human Brain’.
This system made the children compulsory to use all kinds of media to go about their learning. Learning without smart board makes the child dull. Learning without Google makes a child ignorant.
There are a lot of teachings aids to help the child learn. It is good that modern education has broken the wall of the confined syllabus and has reached to know the knowledge of every nook and corner of the world.
In focus to a modern education, the children have a lot of opportunities to be distracted. Having all the latest equipment, it is difficult for the schools to motive the children not to be distracted by the media.
Extraordinary Expectations
‘Increase in Population brought Hybrid war; Increase in Modernity brought Talent war’.
The first man to land on the moon… the first woman to reach the peak…etc.… are the facts that made this colorful world into a competitive world. Along with centum results, they also wanted to win the talents. So every child is targeted to learn many extra activities other than their schooling.
They are in focus to make an extraordinary nation. The world must understand the difficulties that are faced by the current learning generation and must stop overfeeding the child that can lead to the lack of important values for life.
Redefined Education of the Past and The Present
‘Refined oil for cooking is not Healthy, but a Refined toil for Educating is definitely Healthy’.
Every new system is framed by keeping in mind the difficulties of the old system. The same can be applied to the system of education too.
As it is told in the beginning that education is defined by many in many ways, the education of the future days can be defined by considering the healthy growth of every child learning. A definition that is more comfortable for every child to cope up and to develop all their skills.
“Old is Gold”. There are a lot from the past and the present that can be taken to define a RENEWED EDUCATION. As you have read from the beginning you could easily find out the vast changes played in the field of education.
Once upon a time, learning value was only education and later, learning books became education and still later learning gadgets became education. It is not to praise the past education and blame the present education, but to make you think over the good of education and encourage the betterment of educators.
The following suggestions filtered from the past and the present system of education will help us REDEFINE the future educational system to frame a lovely humanity with intelligent humans.
- Love nature and learn from nature.
- Wisdom through Meditation and healthy habits.
- Read about past to know the miracles you experience in the present, thereby respecting the Talents of Man.
- To believe that education can change and rule the world.
- Value-based education with respect and obedience towards the elders.
- Learning to lead a worthy life and to keep up the qualities of humanity.
- Focusing on gaining knowledge and also to understand the reality.
Education by use of the latest technologies without harming the concentration of the child.
To understand that curriculum and co-curriculum are two hands of education and not to dominate over each other.
The extra learning must be framed such that they relax the mind of the learner and not to make them feel stress.
Education outside the classroom wall to formulate an experimental learning.
Conclusion
‘Educate Man with Modernity with a strong value foundation of Humanity’.
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Education should not become a tool for ruining the values of humanity. The complete system of education must be moving towards the goal of achieving “Knowledge and Wisdom through the path of good human Values to create a standard for the technologies introduced”.
Alternate Thoughts for Ultimate Life!
Author: Shiney Charlette J
