Evolution Of Modern Education
Fri ,20/11/2009Education broadly taken cannot be synonymous with instruction or schooling only. It implies the entire life process of an individual in and through the socio-cultural environment.
Plants are fashioned by cultivation, men by education. Behold the murmuring river-its unceasing flowing on for entering the boundless Ocean. It is a process-an unending process for enriching itself with the perfection.
Education consists of both formal and informal aspects. This concept of education as accretion is liable to criticism. The foremost function of education is to bring about the integrated development of the education and also the adjustment of the organism to the environment. Then comes the adjustment to the inner mental world which is the sum total of a person’s instincts, emotions, abilities, temperament and aptitudes.
Education is a conscious effort with an aim to bring about certain behavioral changes in the individual. The establishment of aims thus becomes necessary. The term Education is derived from the three Latin words ‘Educatum’, ‘Educare’, ‘Educere’.
The term education is generally used in two senses-a narrow sense and a broad sense. In the narrow sense it is synonymous with instruction which is imparted through educational institutions whereas in broad sense education means experience and so it is regarded as a life long process.
Modern Education may be defined as a social process of development which consists of the active and superior adjustment of the individual to his ever-changing physical, social and spiritual environments, for the permanent well-being of both the individual and the society.