EDUCATION makes a NATION

 

EDUCATION makes a  NATION

“The  aim  (of  education)  must  be  the  training  of  independently  acting  and  thinking individuals  who,  however,  can  see  in  the  service  to  the  community  their  higher life  achievements.”  Albert  Einstein  rightly  stated  his  concern  regarding  the  quality of  education  which  must  be  rendered  to  the  individuals , so  as  to  instigate  a  sense of  change  and  development  into  them.

Though,  according  to  UNDP,  the  strength  of  a  nation  depends  on  a  rampant growth  of  statistics  like  GDP, GNI,  and  number  of  goods  and  services  produced and  other  socio-economic  factors  yet  human  is  also  an  imperative  facet  which  lays an  infallible  role  in  these  statistics  and  is  also  inextricably  interwoven  in  various development  projects  and  policies,  laid  down  by  various  nations.  Besides,  every nation  is  busy  now ,  instigating  into  their  citizens  quality  education,  which  is directly  proportional  to  the  human  capital  and  can  create  wide  income  inequalities in  the  society.  Adam  smith  rightly  said,”  The  capacities  of   individuals  depend  on their  access  to  education.”

However  in  the  developing  countries  like  India,  the  education  system  has  been improved  in  the  recent  past ,  yet  they  are  trying  to  triumph  the  modern  war  with old  armors.  In  India,  nearly  65  percent  population  is  engaged  in  agriculture  sector  and  most  of  them  are  in  dearth  of  essential  skills  and  knowledge. In contrast,  about  25  percent  of  the  total  population  is  engaged  in  service  sector which  contributes  to  more  than  half  of  the  GDP  as  compare  to  the  agriculture sector  which  added  only  32  percent  in spite  of  having  a  large  workforce  involved in  it.  Thus,  holistic  access  to  quality  education  in  each  sector  can  pilot  a  nation  to  success.

 According  to  World  development  report   (1991),  The  overall  goal  of  development is  therefore  to  increase  the  economic ,  political,  social  and  civil  rights  of  the people  across  gender ,  ethnic  groups,  religions,  races,  regions  and countries. However,  International  institutions  like  World  bank,  IMF,  and  UNESCO  have  been consecrating  incessantly   to  provide  help  to  developing  nations  achieving  their educational  goals,  yet  it  is  still  a  substantial  need  for  developing  countries  to augment  the  share  of  their  GDP  in  education  sector  . In  India,  around  3-4  percent  of the  GDP  has  been  spent  on  education  which  is  not  more  than  a  drop  in  the bucket .  Consequently,  this  small  share  ultimately  has  produced  a  chip  on  the shoulder  of   Indian  government  in  the  form  of  poverty,  unemployment,  increasing slums,  lack  of  standard  of  living  of  people  which  is  considered  as  one  of  the major  indicator  of   development   in  Human  development  index  report .

Thus,  Education  has  been  proved  as  an  important  instrument  of  the  machinery  of the  nation.  Now,  there  is  a  need  to  congregate  all  educational  instruments  in  a common  platform  through  proper  education  (subjective  as  well  as  analytical)   and amelioration  of  the  human  resource  management ,  which  only  can  prevent  people from  becoming  programmed  devices  and  instigate  into  them  a  “real  intelligent holistic  human  capability”  and  a  sense  of  development  from  within  “ holistically” to  make  outside  more  developed  and  holistic.

Copyright 2011 

Dr. Singh 

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