THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION

THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION

Every now and then a question arises in every educated person’s mind: what is the purpose of education? Most of us think it as a way to get job or learn some skills. To some extent, it is true that through education we learn skills to get a job or do some work. But, is it the sole purpose of acquiring education? Is our education system only made for producing workers or are there some others purposes of it as well? Let’s find the answers.

There are many schools of thought in the world having different opinions on this subject; however, we may divide them into two broad categories: traditional and modern, on the basis of their approaches to the education system. The traditional approach signifies education only as an instrument to learn social norms and values so that a member of a society may comfortably perform the roles assigned to him. It’s a kind of indoctrination to put the child in a framework so that he does not challenge the existing structure and knowledge. Their purpose is to stop people from questioning the already framed things and established knowledge. The modern approach, however, is broader in its perspective. It asserts that the purpose of education is to train minds to think, question and solve the problems that a person may face in his life. Noam Chomsky elaborated it as “the Enlightenment – highest goal in life to enquire and create, search the riches of the past and try to internalize … and carry the quest” for understanding further in one’s own way.

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