The culture which education seeks to communicate is not dependent on particular beliefs which are supported by the institutional ethos of society. Socially therefore education seeks to bridge the gulf between power and wisdom. The poor will have to be freed from its domination and would seek to raise wisdom to absolute power. According to Arnold the main purpose of education is "the harmonious expansion of all the power which make the beauty and worth of human nature and is not sustained with the over-development of any one power at the expense of the rest".
In our society we just try to educate the rhythm of life with the rise and fall in culture and its consequence is extreme type of frustration. Marx correctly pointed out "Frustration is the psychic price of living in pointed out "Frustration is the psychic price of living in a society which reduces all human worth to exchange value". Education must serve those persons who can rise above these pressures and who have the power to reform the society in one or other way.
Similarly education in a civilised society must also teach the human beings to adjust themselves with the social order. In this connection Ruskin says in his book "Time and Tide" "cry for education among the lower order is because they think that when once they have got it they must become upper orders". So education can definitely make the people to rise above the old rut for adjusting themselves with the changing society. Clearly it will achieve a sort of new dimensions to their thinking and will definitely serve their basic needs.
Now a day many of the educationists might think that the purpose of education is to equip a person with the weapons for fighting the forces of darkness and conservatism. If the society is evolving itself, as it must, it needs a push and that is always provided by the educational background. If it fails to produce a creative temper it is a bad type of education. The protective armour should not be given to the barbarous people though the cultured must always get some type of armour for protecting their rights and realising their duties.
At this time the most important problem for education is to tackle the rebellious attitude of the students. This type of revolt in the mind of the youth is perhaps because of the gap between the social conditions and the conditions available in the educational fields. For example democracy encourages democratic feeling whereas in educational field there is still authoritarianism. Similarly progress of science has provided a large number of means of recreations and pastimes but education has not been adjusted with them so far. These types of divergent pulls have created imbalance in the minds of the young. So education will have to remove this imbalance.
It will not be inappropriate to take up the question of normal education in the universities and the colleges. If education is to become a training for the preparation of life it will have to conform to the realities of life. If it ignores the demands of life it will never be able to serve the purpose which it should. Anyhow there are many types of education as a result of it, we will be making human beings only cogs in the machines of life we will have to treat human beings at different levels and education should provide an ideal training for an ideal life which is free from all types of degenerating influences. We are not merely to live rather we are to live a better type of life and better, to my mind cannotes, moral life than anything else.
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In our society we just try to educate the rhythm of life with the rise and fall in culture and its consequence is extreme type of frustration. Marx correctly pointed out "Frustration is the psychic price of living in pointed out "Frustration is the psychic price of living in a society which reduces all human worth to exchange value". Education must serve those persons who can rise above these pressures and who have the power to reform the society in one or other way.
Similarly education in a civilised society must also teach the human beings to adjust themselves with the social order. In this connection Ruskin says in his book "Time and Tide" "cry for education among the lower order is because they think that when once they have got it they must become upper orders". So education can definitely make the people to rise above the old rut for adjusting themselves with the changing society. Clearly it will achieve a sort of new dimensions to their thinking and will definitely serve their basic needs.
Now a day many of the educationists might think that the purpose of education is to equip a person with the weapons for fighting the forces of darkness and conservatism. If the society is evolving itself, as it must, it needs a push and that is always provided by the educational background. If it fails to produce a creative temper it is a bad type of education. The protective armour should not be given to the barbarous people though the cultured must always get some type of armour for protecting their rights and realising their duties.
At this time the most important problem for education is to tackle the rebellious attitude of the students. This type of revolt in the mind of the youth is perhaps because of the gap between the social conditions and the conditions available in the educational fields. For example democracy encourages democratic feeling whereas in educational field there is still authoritarianism. Similarly progress of science has provided a large number of means of recreations and pastimes but education has not been adjusted with them so far. These types of divergent pulls have created imbalance in the minds of the young. So education will have to remove this imbalance.
It will not be inappropriate to take up the question of normal education in the universities and the colleges. If education is to become a training for the preparation of life it will have to conform to the realities of life. If it ignores the demands of life it will never be able to serve the purpose which it should. Anyhow there are many types of education as a result of it, we will be making human beings only cogs in the machines of life we will have to treat human beings at different levels and education should provide an ideal training for an ideal life which is free from all types of degenerating influences. We are not merely to live rather we are to live a better type of life and better, to my mind cannotes, moral life than anything else.
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