The Role of Education in National Progress
The Role of Education in
National Progress
(How can education help
us develop our country?)
Outline: (Only Main
Points)
1. Introduction:
Importance of education, teacher, civilization.
2. Three
needs of a nation: technical, moral, social.
3. Role
of education in these three fields
4. Conclusion
Some two thousand years ago Plato once said, “If you want to judge the quality of civilization, have a look at its teachers.” By teachers, he meant the state of education in a country. Education is a process that develops the potentialities of a man and helps him to concentrate his energies on whatever aims he likes. Nations are made not by wealth but by men and men are made by education. It was because of this important role of education in national development that the teachers and educators were respected very much in ancient times and are even respected today, though with a lesser degree. Today, education has been recognized as an investment that will bring more fruit in the future than any other industry. Progress in the absence of education is unthinkable. Modern civilization with its inventions and advancement is a product of education.
Education is a vast
field. As regards its role, we can divide it into three parts;
vocational education, social or political education, and moral education. There
may be three needs of a nation: it should rich in material resources and
skilled labor; it should be united and moreover it should consist of a better
man having clear aims and definite visions. Education satisfies all these
needs.
The efficiency or the
working power of a nation depends upon vocational education. Engineers,
doctors, scientists, and teachers come from this sort of education. Huge
buildings, big dams, construction of roads, fight against disease, fight
against disease, fight against ignorance, new inventions, harnessing the forces
of nature, trade, commerce, the system of banking--------all depend upon
vocational education. All of these activities would come to stop if education
fails to provide men for them. All comforts and amenities of life, railways,
other means of communication, sailing ships, flying airplanes, tractors, and
tube wells working in fields and irrigation the soil, all are due to vocational
education.
Then comes the social or
political aspect of education. Every country has a society and every man is
bound to live in a society. Then every country or nation is a political entity
in the world. Social or political sort of education teaches a nation how to
live with others, how to maintain political relations with them. The world of
today is like a family and no nation can progress without the help of others.
So national development also depends upon corporation with other nations which
is impossible without education. Moreover, without education, we can’t have an
established society. For national development and advancement, it is necessary
that society must enjoy peace and stability which come through social
education. Again the importance of education in national development is proved.
Next, come to the moral
side of education. Mao-Tsetse-Tung once said that material revolution always
follows moral revolution. His own country is a practical example of his point.
If the people of a nation are lazy, shirkers, liars, with no sense of duty to
themselves and to their country, having no principles of their life, the
country is doomed. It is at this juncture that the moral side of education
helps them. The people develop the qualities of patience, unselfishness,
endurance, faithfulness, and a sense of sacrifice. They create in themselves
the sight to distinguish between good and bad; they learn to stand and fight
against that which is nor right in their eyes. The progress of a nation in the
real sense of the world depends upon such man. A famous poet Emerson has
rightly said:
Not gold, but only men
can make;
A people great and
strong;
Men who for truth and
honor’s sake,
Stand fast and suffer
long.
Brave men who work while
others sleep,
Who dare while others
fly.
They build a nation’s
pillars deep,
And lift them to the
sky.
Hence the role of
education in national development is of utmost importance.
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