The importance of education may be different than you were taught.
"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." - F. A. Hayek
The
supposed purpose of education, as marketed by the education industry,
is career advancement, higher pay, and empowering a college graduate's
job search. This presents the current
personal importance of education as determined by a few studies performed back when bureaucratic machines were still humming. We will discuss the
social importance of education later
The Importance of Education
Education has an immense impact on the human society. One can safely
assume that a person is not in the proper sense till he is educated. It
trains the human mind to think and take the right decision. In other
words, man becomes a rational animal when he is educated.
It is through education that knowledge and information is
received and spread throughout the world. An uneducated person cannot
read and write and hence he is closed to all the knowledge and wisdom
he can gain through books and other mediums. In other words, he is shut
off from the outside world. In contrast, an educated man lives in a
room with all its windows open towards outside world.
The quality of human resource of a nation is easily judged by the
number of literate population living in it. This is to say that
education is a must if a nation aspires to achieve growth and
development and more importantly sustain it. This may well explain the
fact that rich and developed nations of the world have very high
literacy rate and productive human resource. In fact these nations have
started imparting selective training and education programs so as to
meet the new technical and business demands of the 21st century.
In the US, many educational institutes offer vocational as
well as other training programs apart from the normal credit programs.
To cater to the educational needs of the working population, many
colleges offer online education. The degrees and certificates offered
by these online colleges and universities are very convenient for
working people as well as students. Working people needs these degrees
to update their knowledge and skill level which will come handy in
their promotion and achieving growth as professionals. Students can
also pursue an online degree and work and earn at the same time.
In fact, certain professionals like doctors and dentists, are obliged
to follow mandatory lifelong learning. This is done so that they keep
pace with all the research and development done in the medical field.
These professionals not only needs to update themselves about these
developments, but also learn new techniques of practice and perfect old
ones. Learning about patient management and the delivery of care is
rather a continuing process. Since these professionals, especially
doctors have huge moral responsibility towards the patients and society
in general, continuing education is a must for them.
It is in such a scenario that distance education comes into
the picture. Since professionals do not have the time to attend
classroom classes, distance education comes as a convenient
alternative. They can learn at a time convenient to them and from the
comfort of their homes.
Keeping the importance of education in mind, the US Department
of Education aims to promote student achievement and preparation for
global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring
equal access. It also establishes policies regarding federal financial
aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds.
It also continuously strives to focus national attention on key
educational issues and providing equal access to education.
The importance of education cannot be neglected by any nation.
And in today’s world, the role of education has become even more vital.
It is an absolute necessity for economic and social development of any
nation.
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