Real meaning of Education:

Education is the process of learning, through which, someone learns about new things that grows up a person's standard of living. Education is both the act of teaching knowledge to others and the act of receiving knowledge from someone else. Education also refers to the knowledge received through schooling or instruction and to the institution of teaching as a whole. Education for All means ensuring that all children have access to basic education of good quality. This implies creating an environment in schools and in basic education programmers in which children are both able and enabled to learn. Education for All, a non-religious non-denominational, not-for-profit organization is an example that quality education can be provided free of cost to all by supporting schools that provide free education from school boarding, school tuition and including daily nutrition, all completely free of cost for all students.

According to some learned people, the word “Education” came from the Latin term “Educate” that means the act of teaching or training. A group of educationists say that it has come from another Latin word “Educate” which means “to bring up” or “to raise”.

According to a few others, the word “Education” has originated from another Latin term “Educate” which means “to lead forth” or “to come out”. All these meanings indicate that education aims to nourish the good qualities in man and draw out the best in every individual. Education seeks to develop the innate inner capacities of man

Definitions of Education:

The Concepts of Education as given by well-known educationists are as follows.

1.       Rigveda: “Education is something which makes man self-reliant and selfless”.

2.       Upanishad: “Education is for liberation”.

3.       Bhagavad Gita: “Nothing is more purifying on earth than wisdom.”

4.       Shankar Acharya: “Education is the realization of self’.

5.       Gunrunner: “Education is self-realization and service to people”.

6.       Kausalya: “Education means training of the country and love of the nation”.

7.       Panini: “Human education means the training which one gets from nature”.

8.       Vivekananda: “Education is the manifestation of the divine perfection, already existing in man.”

9.       Gandhi: “By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the Child and man body, mind and spirit.”

10.   Tagore: “The widest road leading to the solution of all our problems is education.


Concepts of Education as defined by Western philosophers

1.       Socrates: “Education means the bringing out of the ideas of universal validity which are latent in the mind of every man”.

1.       Plato: “Education is the capacity to feel pleasure and pain at the right moment. It develops in the body and in the soul of the pupil all the beauty and all the perfection which he is capable of.”

2.       Aristotle: “Education is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body. It develops man’s faculty, especially his mind so that he may be able to enjoy the contemplation of supreme truth, goodness and beauty of which perfect happiness essentially consists.

3.       Rousseau: “Education of man commences at his birth; before he can speak, before he can understand he is already instructed. Experience is the forerunner of the perfect”.

4.       Herbert Spencer: “Education is complete living”.

 

 

Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.

-Clause Moser

 

 

                                “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap                            

                                        compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

-Walter Cronkite

 

Above two quotes I love because it reminds me that the power of education is not something that can be taken for granted. The teachers that inspired me to seek out these quotes taught me because it was their job. While they may have done it for free, the reality is they need to be paid to be able to teach me and my fellow classmates.

Education requires national investment and broad community support.