In the modern times education is most effective tool of empowerment. You empower a man with this magical wand and he will create his own world of idea and imagination .It is this tool which has changed the topography of world from scrambled mass of continents to a global village. Great men like Abraham Lincoln used this weapon of mass awakening to create a country which believed in social justice and inclusive growth. Whereas our own A.P.J. Abdul kalam used this weapon as to prepare a range of Agni missiles to give India a clear edge in security development. In order to understand the fundamental relationship between education and development we need to answer basically two questions. They are: why we require education? And after all what is development? When the two question is answered it explains the relationship between development and education by its own. WHY WE REQUIRE EDUCATION?
According to swami Vivekananda education is process by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased and intellect is sharpened as a result of which one can stand on one’s own feet. And when this jewel coronate maximum people of country then nation becomes developed. Education enhances one's knowledge and as the saying goes; knowledge is power. However, power that a person possess will be dependent on how an individual uses it.
This is where the education should be given importance. As education is geared towards individual development, such development should eventually transform into nations development.
It is one important policy that a state must promote, as education is the only means to understand its history, culture and to some extent their state policy. Education is the only means to unite a country, a people as nation. Educated people are better positioned to contribute positively to country’s growth, ✍ in developing countries, education is viewed as means to alleviate poverty and engineer social change. It isn't a magic pill for solving all the problems. But it can surely be a ladder to climb out of poverty, exclusion, ignorance, oppression, and war. WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT
Development is A purposeful change in a society that contributes to social and economic wellbeing and Advancement of its people without creating any disharmony. Development empowers people and promotes important changes in their lives. However, development cannot take place by itself. It requires an educated, skilled and competent people. Seen from this angle, education becomes the most important factor for development as well as for empowering people. People having reasonable literacy and numeracy skills tend to produce more farm crops, have limited number of children and enjoy a relatively better quality of life as compared with uneducated families. It is because of its tangible contributions in changing the lives of the people that education becomes an important part of the development policy in every country.
our worthy opponents may argue that education can only be useful and meaningful when it brings about positive changes in one’s life and empowers a person to face day-to-day challenges. On the same grounds, they may assert that education becomes meaningful only when it provides knowledge and skills of reading, writing, simple arithmetic, and problem solving and for improving the quality of life. Education organised and oriented on these lines is certainly going to have a lasting impact on income, agricultural productivity, fertility rate, birth spacing, pre- and postnatal health, nutrition, knowledge, attitudes and values.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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