boundaries, forms the very essence of all our actions.
What we do is what we know and have learned, either
through instructions or through observation and
assimilation. When we are not making an effort to
learn, our mind is always processing new information or
trying to analyze the similarities as well as the tiny
nuances within the context which makes the topic stand
out or seem different. If that is the case then the
mind definitely holds the potential to learn more,
however, it is us who stop ourselves from expanding the
horizons of our knowledge with self-doubt or other
social, emotional, or economic constraints.
While most feel that education is a necessity, they
tend to use it as a tool for reaching a specific target
or personal mark, after which there is no further need
to seek greater education. Nonetheless, the importance
of education in society is indispensable and cohering,
which is why society and knowledge cannot be ever
separated into two distinct entities. Let us find out
more about the role of education in society and how it
affects our lives.
Purpose of Education in Society
Education is Self Empowerment
Receiving a good education helps empower you, thus
making you strong enough to look after yourself in any
given situation. It keeps you aware of your given
surrounding as well as the rules and regulations of the
society you're living in. It's only through knowledge
that you can be able to question authority for its
negligence or discrepancies. It is only then that you
can avail your rights as a citizen and seek improvement
in the structural functioning of governance and
economy. It's only when a citizen is aware about the
policies of its government can he be able to support or
protest the change. As a whole, people can bring about
development only when they know where improvement is
necessary for the greater good of mankind. Education
helps you understand yourself better, it helps you
realize your potential and qualities as a human being.
It helps you to tap into latent talent, so that you may
be able to sharpen your skills.
Financial Stability and Dignity of Life
Another importance of education is that it helps you
gain sufficient academic qualification so that you are
able to get suitable employment at a later stage. A
decent employment would be combined with hard-earned
remuneration or salary through which you can look after
your personal expenses. While you earn for yourself,
you gradually begin to realize the true worth of money
and how hard it is to earn it. You realize the
significance of saving for a rainy day and for
unforeseeable contingencies. You feel empowered because
there is a new sense of worth that develops within you,
and you feel the need to be independent and free from
any further financial support. You take pride in the
fact that you are earning for yourself, and are not
obligated to anyone.
Growth in Personal Aspiration
There also comes a phase when the amount you are
earning presently will seem inadequate because your
aspirations and expectations from yourself would have
grown considerably. After this, you will want to change
jobs so as to have a higher profile. However, here is
when you need to be prepared. A promotion of this
figure can occur in two given situations, which are,
that either you have the necessary higher academic
qualification or a college degree which allows you a
safe passage, or that you have amassed enough practical
experience which allows you to be a suitable candidate
for the employment you seek.
On the Job Efficiency
This is why college education is very important after
high school and must not be taken for granted. When
faced with the option of choosing between a highly
qualified candidate and a not so educated candidate,
the employers will most probably go in for the
qualified person. The reason being that, a qualified
candidate will not require much investment of the
employer's time and money. The organization need not
teach him or her the tricks of the trade, or the
various ways of functioning and performing the tasks of
the workplace. On the contrary, a novice / amateur
applicant would need to be taught everything from
scratch, which many employer's are usually not willing
to do. The same applies for people who seek higher
education and get advanced diplomas while working.
These people are continuously improving their profile
and their knowledge base so as to go higher up on the
competitive ladder.
Helps Plan Ahead
Those who have amassed enough education, steer the path
of development and progress for their country. It is
these individuals who go ahead and become teachers,
scientists, inventors, welfare activists, soldiers, and
politicians who work together to form the very backbone
of the society. Without this pool of intellect, the
economic and social framework would crumple and fall,
paving its way for anarchy, degradation, and violence.
While this intricate balance of growth is maintained,
there will be a continuous rise in progress in all
quarters of life, whether that be personal growth, or
development of the nation as an entity. This progress
has a very important role to play for the coming
generations, which will reap the benefits of our hard
work, as they develop it further. At the same time, the
negative impact of our actions shall have its
collateral damage on the coming generation as well.
Which is why we must be exceptionally prudent about the
decisions we make and the actions we take in the
present.
Job Seeker vs. Job Provider
There will come a time, when you will no longer feel
the need to be working as someone's mere employee. You
would want to take charge and control over your own
life and income. This is when you will decide to become
a self-employed individual, who would like to watch his
/ her own ideas take realistic form. You would prefer
being the one offering job opportunities to others and
aid in providing income to them. At this stage of
entrepreneurship, you may use your own expertise as
well as that of other trained and skilled associates.
As a team, you will find your business or venture
expanding and yielding good results. You may even gain
the confidence and insight, which will help you
diversify and spread your expertise into other business
arenas, which were previously unknown to you, or you
were unsure about. This ability, comes with experience
and knowledge amassed over the years.
An Idle Mind is The Devil's Workshop
Education and studying regularly, gives people of all
age groups something substantial and challenging to do.
It helps them think and use their idle hours, doing
something productive and worthwhile. Education need not
be purely academic and may include reading for leisure
or as a passion for literature, philosophy, art,
politics, economics, or even scientific research. There
is no limit, to all that you can teach yourself, only
if you take the interest to learn and grow as an
individual. However, those who treat knowledge as
trash, eventually find themselves getting absorbed with
thoughts of violence, and jealously against those who
are better off than themselves. It is people such as
these who turn towards drug addiction, unnecessary
rebellion, crime, and plain inactivity. Such people
lack the self-esteem, that a good education often
provides to its followers.
Education plays its continuous role in all spheres of
life. The reason being, that if we are aware of the
drawbacks of a decision and we know about the possible
contingencies and the collateral damage, our consequent
actions would be wiser, which would help us to keep
danger at bay at all times.
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