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OUR PRIMARY EDUCATION. |
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Education
of the child begins in the mother’s womb. The
environment in the house from the time of conception will
have some effect on the child’s physical growth as
also the mind. The parents are the first teachers, and
the basic foundation should be laid there at home for
future development. Having said that, we should also take
stock of the early schooling which, will have, equal, if
not more, responsibility in shaping the future citizens.
I think it was Socrates who said " Let not my
schooling come in the way of my education". This
saying is pregnant with lots of meaning for our leaders
in the field of primary education, as also higher
education.
You are what you think you should be. The human
personality development, which is the training one gets
to deal with society, depends, to a very large extent, on
the type of education one gets in the early part of
one’s life, the latter being the most impressionable
age. Should we not take a serious note of the state of
affairs in that field and do something to see that things
are set right, if they are not in the best interest of
our future citizens? With the advent of the influence of
the British education in our country, in the last three
hyundred years, we seem to have lost sight of the basic
tenets of our hoary educational system in the gurukulas.
I am sorry that we do not even take lessons from the
thinkers even in the western system who seem to be in
total agreement with our ancient thinking in this field.
William Butler Yeats was of the firm opinion that "
education is not filling the pail, but lighting
the fire." Swami Vivekananda, respected in the West
as Narendranath Dutta, a great Calcutta intellectual, who
gets a place of honour with two pages space in the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, was very definite as to what
our education should aim at, when he said that it should
bring out the best in man " Education is the
manifestation of the perfection already in man."
That is exactly the meaning of the education in Latin.
Defining education in 1644, Adam Smith said " Total
education is that process which prepares a man ( women
were not supposed to be educated then) to act justly,
skilfully, and magnanimously under all circumstances
in peace time and war".
Our educational system seems to have forgotten all those
teachings. It is concentrating all efforts to to fill
the pail only with information from all sources, most
of it would have no bearing on the child’s future.
" Where is the wisdom"? Asked T.S.Eliot, "
we seem to have lost in knowledge, and Where is the
knowledge that we seem to have lost in information?. It
was the Bible which rightly said " Wisdom is the
thing, Go get thy wisdom, But with all thy getting, Get Understanding."
Education, at least in the intitial stages should
concentrate on understanding. I am aware of the needs
of the information age that we live in and those who get
more information get ahead of others in this material
world. I do not think that is education[index]
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