THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION

 

The most commonly prescribed goal of education is that it should impart knowledge along with the skills and ability of forming a right judgment whenever needed. But the prescription is not understood in its right perspective by most of us. Rather the education is synonymized with the process of collecting the existing information about knowledge along with the skills of mean disposition of it, and with an unchallengeable right for forming a judgment.

This misunderstanding has led people, particularly of backward sections of the global society to an unidentifiable path with a chaotic fulfillment of the purpose. To clarify the purpose of education we may take it as a route that leads to the limitless vastness of possibilities. In this way an actual learner should focus on learning the process, and a sincere instructor to teach him the artistic balance between the head and the heart and the art of keeping it.

The art of keeping an artistic balance is what has been the most needed by man in both the public and private life. Unfortunately the scientific balance has not helped that much, because it gives none other than the standard proportions of Hydrogen and Oxygen to make water. On the other hand life is ever-changing ever demanding a new formula of proportions every moment. So the application of the formula of scientific balance in life may not go well very often outside laboratory but the application of the formula of artistic balance may go well for both life and laboratory (because the most of the scientific discoveries are a result of intentional or unintentional violation of the rule of scientific balance). To conclude it is apt to define the ultimate purpose of education is to be able to keep an artistic balance between the head and the heart.

 

Kashif Moon