Unseen Comprehension-62 Alim (Education Means)

Education Means.

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Education means to change the behaviour of human nature. So we receive education in order to adapt ourselves to the new and changing situation. The purpose of education is to enrich our minds, so that we can enable them to draw conclusion, make judgement and decisions. It is not only given in schools and colleges. Abraham Lincoln spent less than a year at school, yet he was the author of the great Gettygsburg  Speech. Nature is the best master. The school of experience is the most effective school. Observation rather than books, experience rather than men are the best education. The most effective ways of teaching is to make students learn to use their senses properly. 

Education does not commence with alphabet. It begins with the mother's encouraging look, the father's praising word and approval, the sister's sympathy, the brother's kindly help, with the flowers that one picks up in the gardens or fields, with the birds that one watches in meadows and groves. The child must be taught to feel, to observe, and receive impressions. in this way minds are opened out, and ready to receive, absorb and remember. The mind that is both alert and sensitive will learn easily and quickly from all kinds of experiences, whether from life or from books. This is the way in which Shakespeare taught himself to be the greatest dramatist of the world. Secondly, to teach the child its mother tongue makes the students understand, to speak, read and write his mother tongue. In this way mind will be more receptive and will be made active.