Re: [MTC Global] [The Last Big Debate of 2015] What's wrong with education for education's sake?

Dear Sir, I believe the object of education is to provide the knowledge that will help an
individual face the challenges of life and change and become a useful member of the
Society. Towards this goal lies the vast region called employability. It poses the first
of the challenges to a person. The first test of competence is faced by a person in
becoming employable.
I also believe that a person becomes employable by others when he becomes self
employable. This calls for a lot of self knowledge which institutional education can only
provide partially.

Education for education sake means that the goal of education is education. Now this can
cause a great deal of confusion. Education in the first case refers to the means;a way of
learning while in the second case it refers to an end; a goal. As an example we find that
misers hoard money because making money serves both the means and the end. Such a hoard
is useless to everyone and even to the miser( it would pain him to lose it). To a person
studying anything just for the sake of studying may eventually become a hoard of all
kinds of knowledge, quite useless to anyone else.

Education is a means to attain changes in behavior, to become more refined, to become
good and useful,and to become sensitive to our world. If these ends are not served, I
believe that Education would be a curse.
Best regards,
K.Paranjpe

On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:47:52 +0530 "Virendra Goel" wrote
> Education is not for living alone, it is for LIFE – Sri Sathya Sai BabaFrom:
join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raghavendra
Talneru
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 6:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] [The Last Big Debate of 2015] What's wrong with education for
education's sake?Very relevant questions. It is the responsibility of all the
educationists of this country to think seriously and respond.On 31-Dec-2015 3:38 pm,
"Prof. Bholanath Dutta" wrote:Are schools and universities meant
to be making sure their students have the skills to succeed in an increasingly
competitive jobs market, or is the purpose of schooling slightly more open ended? Does it
need to have a purpose at all, beyond instilling knowledge - and a passion to keep
learning - into pupils?

Should learning be about education for education's sake? Or should the focus be
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