Importance of education in society

(Samiya Riaz, Islamabad)

 Education is a necessity. People tend to use it as a tool for reaching a specific target. Education and society cannot be separated. The way children are groomed and educated can have a strong impact or influence on society. They build the society. Education is for our self empowerment. Getting good education makes you strong enough to react in any given situation. It gives you awareness about the rules or regulations of the society you are living in. You can avail your rights as a citizen. People can develop themselves only when they know in which field improvement is required. Education helps you to understand yourself, tells you about your qualities and responsibilities as a human being. It sharps your skills.

Another important role of education is that is helps to get academic qualification. You feel empowered and feel the need to be independent. You earn for yourself and take pride in fact that you are earning for yourself.

It encourages people to go ahead and become teachers, scientists, inventors, welfare activists and politicians who work for the benefit of society. This progress has a very important role to play for coming generations.

There will come a time when you will no longer feel the need to be working as someone's employee. You would want to take charge and control over your own life and income. You may use your own  expertise as well as that of other trained and skilled associates.

Education and studying regularly, gives people of all age groups something challenging to do. It helps them to think and use idle hours, doing something productive and worthwhile.

Education need not to 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, find themselves getting observed with thoughts of violence and jealousy against those who are better off than themselves.

Education plays its continuous role in all spheres of life. If we are aware of the drawbacks of a decision and we know about the possible contingencies.

In our society there is a huge emphasis on obtaining a greater education. Today's youth is tomorrow's nation. And today's youth are our students who play a vital role in the society and how a society is shaped depends on quality education. Education is in fact building character of people living in a educational society. Education starts not only at school but from every home. A child learns from his home, school and than from society and thus every individual that a kid interacts and influences his life later on.

Education reflects and influences the social and cultural order of which is a part. The class system, the cultural values, the balance between individual freedom and social control all these factors exercise a profound influence on school system of a society.

Education in particular the teaching of history, provides this link between the individual and society.

Schools socialise young people into the basic values of society. These values have important functions in society as a whole.

It can be stated here that education performs certain roles for the society. At the same time education is also conditioned by the social structure. Society creates educational institutes such as schools, colleges and universities to perform certain functions in accomplishing its end. The educational system may be viewed as a part of the total social system.

Although education has a significant influence on life, the average education is not the same in different areas. As a result, strategies are being made to resolve the problem. Without education life would be disastrous. We are trying our best to make education global and accessible for every one particularly the poor and the disable.

Apparently, people may become more useful and civilised if better educated. In areas where residents are not able to receive an appropriate education, life cannot be as thriving and prosperous as locations where there is a high standard for education.

As a matter of fact, everything we create today is based on the knowledge that we obtain throughout our life by way of education. The more developed life becomes, the more necessary education is for everyone. Although the educational systems of different countries are not similar but they have to share common goal which is to provide its citizens a suitable and proper learning.

Education is absolutely beneficial for society on the whole. It is a life- long process to each person that need to be reinforced throughout life. We need education system that may eradicate illiteracy and may provide the common man an access not only to basic education but also to higher and technical education.

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