The Purpose Of Education

Education is referred as the profusion of knowledge that is acquired by an individual when or after studying specific subject matters or having an experience in life lessons that provides and understanding of a certain concept. It requires instructions from composed literature or an individual. Most familiar forms of education result from several years of schooling that integrates studies of various subjects. Education provides learners with knowledge about the globe. It enables the learners to acquire good career. It assists in building character of individuals. Education leads to enlightenment and lays a firm foundation of a strong country. It makes a human being to be complete. Philosophers urge that the fact that education enriches the individual’s understanding of themselves; it is also an investment and can have a huge impact on a nation’s development and growth (Jackson , 2012). This paper in a wider view will analyze the concept of education following Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Joel Spring and Jane Martin’s The Educated Person perspectives. It will analyze the purpose of education according to these three sources.

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” –Jean Piaget (A quote by Jean Piaget, 2015) In this quote Piaget captures the pure essence of education in America. Our educational system was built to create a better society that can grow and learn from history. I claim that the purpose of education in America is not just to maintain a status quo, but moreover to educate children better than anywhere else in the world while also providing them equal opportunities for a successful future.

Louis Menand, a professor of English and American literature at Harvard University, presented three different theories for the purpose of higher education in The New Yorker’s article named, Live and Learn: Why We Have College. Menand (2011) claims that the reasons for a college education are meritocratic, democratic, and vocational. These theories are great models for the purpose of higher education in our culture at different points in our history. Our colleges and universities conduct instruction with clear and definite intentions. The institutions of higher education adopt certain techniques designed to serve specific goals. These methods evolve with time and shape the way that generations think and reason. The government’s influence in

The purpose of public school education is to provide students with the tools and skills to continue to higher education, and to help them pursue their goals and dreams in life. It is meant to provide inspiring, positive and culturally affirming experiences that make students excited to learn and succeed. While many students are prepared properly in public schools, this is not true for all. For several students, education is not stimulating, and is dull and boring, or perhaps provides negative and detrimental experiences. Recognizing that there are flaws in the public school system is the first step to making positive changes in the system. A proper education is crucial a competitive society such as this one. Public education must provide for all children equally in order to to prepare them to control their own fate later on in life. Unfortunately, due to the inability to incorporate a multicultural curriculum, many times only students of the dominant culture are given a full and comprehensive education, while students of subdominant cultures and different backgrounds are left behind. This sets them back significantly, making it harder for them to compete in this society no matter how hard they work. While it is impossible for a single person to make the significant changes necessary to the institution of public education, if all government officials, administrators, teachers, parents, and students come together, significant changes can be made in a positive direction. This

Education has a tremendous impact on the human society. It begins at birth and continues until a person’s last day on earth. Human beings gain knowledge and information through education, and use them constantly throughout their lives. Leaders of nations have been thinking constantly how to educate their citizens, because of education’s role as a vital instrument in the development of an individual and society. There are different forms of education exist in the human society. The Most obvious one is the public education. The society offers the free public education to its citizens and citizens are required to take proper education in order to become vital members of the society. The public education, and

What is the end goal of education in today’s society? Why do students feel the need to cheat on tests even if they have studied? I believe the answer is because the grades we get have become more valuable than the education we received. In today’s world, education is strictly consumerist based and it is working directly inverse of what education is supposed to do. Education is should to help facilitate the development of citizenship, stimulate personal growth or self-improvement, occupational preparation, and bring intellectual purposes such as the expansion of mathematical and reading skills. It should also be used to ease the assimilation of immigrants; economic purposes such as job preparation; and social purposes such as the development of social and moral responsibility. Unfortunately, we have perverted the simple idea of advancement and made it as such that everything we do must have a dollar sign right next to it. Or to put it another way, nothing can ever be done without first paying the middle man. This is not how we are meant to grow as individuals. We should not be studying something because of the potential salary. We should be pursuing these subjects because they stimulate and excite us to learn more about our field of interests.

Marc Prensky's article “the goal of education is becoming” is about the poor decision of how schools are teaching children. The article by Diane Ravitch named “the common core costs billions and hurts students” has the same theme, but they do have some differences that really make them their own article with their own points. One of the differences is Ravitch mentions how people from poorer places or in poor black and hispanic neighborhood have worse to no schooling. She states this by saying “policy makers encouraged the firing of thousands of teachers and the closing of thousands of low-scoring public schools, mostly in poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods”. While Prensky doesn’t mention this point, he mainly justs focuses on how schooling

In this paper, I will assume the position that the purpose of education is to enable individuals to achieve their full potential as leaders and members of society; this defines that these individuals will receive an education that will enable them to think and act

The purpose of education in any society is to pass down the skills and knowledge required to live within society. Depending on the amount and quality of the education you receive, you can build any life for yourself. Although this can be very positive and uplifting, it can also be negative and detrimental, depending on the society that you live in. Education can help people living in oppressive situations with no hope to realize their potential and change their life. However, it can also keep people complacent, blind to their potential, and hopeless.

Education is an investment. This is the reason we see many people acquire education and become successful. Life is not bed of roses, and some people are unable to get their desired education. This may be due to various reasons such as not having enough money, or taking care of their families and loved ones. However, there are some people who fights with life to achieve their goals and return to college to fulfil it. According the article, “Colleges Embrace Older Students, Part-timers”, Sandra Block discusses that commute daily to college and family dependencies are also major obstacle for non-traditional students beside paying for tuition. Those who lives in remote areas it becomes very difficult to travel college daily. Moreover, people who are married they need to spend time with their spouse and children. Block suggests some solutions to overcome these problems, which includes creating more online interactive courses, opening satellite locations, evening classes and offering scholarships can aid the part-timers to fulfil their dreams. Even though there are several ways to counter the problems of non-traditional students but I suggest creating more online interactive courses will aid them to achieve their dreams.

There has been much debate in education concerning the purpose of schooling in recent years. Functionalist scholars purport that schools exist for the transmission of knowledge and values in order to create a collective and cohesive social group. Here, students gain knowledge in an organized fashion, as the curriculum mandated by the government or state education board is taught (Sadovnik, Cookson, & Semel, 2013). Taught through the curriculum are the knowledge, skills, character traits, behaviours, and attitudes required to thrive in capitalist economies, Neo-Marxists theorists argue (Sadovnik, Cookson, & Semel, 2013). In these capitalist societies, student assessments and ranking are based on their academic achievement because high

Education is one of the principal means available to foster deeper and more harmonious form of human development and thereby reduce poverty, exclusion, ignorance and oppression. It refines sensitivities and perceptions that contribute to national cohesion, a scientific temper and independence of mind and spirit, thus furthering the goals of socialism, secularism and democracy enshrined in our constitution.

The purpose of university education is not only to gain more knowledge for future careers, but to educate people from becoming illiterate. University education was first established in 1636 by John Harvard. His first purpose was to train students to becoming Christian ministers, which resulted into a prestigious school for students to attend. Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts was primarily a puritan college because of the era of strict religious beliefs in society. Students that attended Harvard were very wealthy because of the high costs that was in demand to receive a higher education at a private university. As years past, students were not able to continue their education after high school because they did not have the money to attend a private university, so the idea of a public university would be established in 1795. The University of North Carolina was the first public university that gave people who were not rich an opportunity to receive a higher education, and democratize education for everyone. This university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina was established by William Richardson Davie. As more universities were being developed, a new system of higher education would be introduced in 1901. The first public community college was Joliet Junior College. Founded under Superintendent J. Stanley Brown and William Rainey Harper, President of the University of Chicago. This new system of higher education gave more people the opportunity to go

This article analyses the definition and the purpose of education. I first define education as a particularly social activity through the integration from different views. Then I introduce the education in China, in the process of quality education reform, which can be taken as a shift from the utilization of education. The current situation, however, is unsatisfactory and problematic because the reform seems to be just a formality. Partially as a solution to this, I describe the purpose of education to focus on the preparation of meaningful life and liberation in order to lessen the harmful effect of exam-oriented education.

The purpose of education for individuals both male and female --- is to develop the powers and capacities latent within them, so that they may contribute their share to an ever advancing civilization.