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Education is a continuous process from birth to death of an individual.The aim of education is knowledge,not of facts but of values.It is not possible to carry out a good deal of things for the society without having the knowledge of goodness.And this had been the aim of education in the past.Gradually the vitality of this aim was widened.As Science and Technology advanced,the realm of arts and science also broadened and the haste for aquisition of knowledge gained a notable change.
What makes a man tackle with the problems of social life?It is his knowledge about the society he lives.The ultimate goal of all educational programmes is to fix up one with the awareness of his life and the world.Its nothing but the development of man's brain that makes him undeviating from his principles.However the true aim of education is to lead him to realize the path towards the ultimate truth.
There is no doubt that education primarily contemplate the well being of one's personal and social life.As a member of the society each of us have the responsibility to carry out some duties also.All these duties or obligations as what we call,are to be fulfilled through certain particular vocations.In this sense the aim of education can also be said to make one suitable foe a job.It is in this sense professional education is very much relevant.
Privatisation of higher education is rapidly progressing in India and it is justified pointing to the large requirements of professionals in future.In this regard concern voiced by Prof.Anandakrishnan ,Chairman of IIT Kanpur which was reported some 5 years back draws our attention."In one year the number of Engineering Colleges has gone up to 2250 from 1600.There is a mad rush for starting engineering colleges.This is a scandal in technical education and nothing has been done to prevent this."[Times of India,20 Oct 2008].The preference of private promoters for job oriented disciplines is understandable as it is a high profitable business now a days.Students are expected to complete their higher education with the help of loans or other means as their prospects of employment following the courses are high.
But education is not just about enrolment from numbers.What is the quality of education provided by self financing institutions?While there are excellent private institutions that have been established over years like BITS,Pilani and Thapur University,Patiala,the concern here is about the large number of institutions that have been mushroomed in the last decade or so.The criterion for selection of students to many private self financing institutions is that there is enough cash in the hands of prospective students to pay for the high fees demanded by private institution besides huge amount of donation.
Another trend in our country reveals that many of our students seeks foreign universities in countries like Australia for pursuing their career in professional jobs.The poor people, as we call in both sense,in their zealous engagement in giving their child quality education is unaware of the expenditure,nature of jobs,the quality of education and the social environment of such countries.Rarely do they recognize that they were betrayed by money thurstful agents.The only solution to this problem is to provide education on quality basis and not on quantity.Co-operative sector can also do a good many things in this field to render education on quality basis without having the lust for making money which will be a solution to the quantitative problem also.
For the sake of the aforesaid aims of education and the society, we have to cross examine the mindset of the student community who spend huge amount for their higher studies.Majority possess a view that they spend money for doing the professional course.So they have to get it back in multiple in a short period in any way disregard of the morals or ethics.As far as they are concerned the society is not in the picture.Their concern is about a small circle consisting of their family.The emergence of nuclear family system donate much to evolve such a view in the minds of the youth.Moreover the modernisation of villages into towns and the globalised new life styles paved the way for the deterioration of their humanitarian outlook.
The character of an individual is assessed and evaluated by the society.Our obligation to the society in fixing up a disciplinary life is provided by education.Besides acquisition of knowledge,training of jobs and character formation it should have the aim to raise the cultural aspects for building up the grand work for a complete life and inculcating moral values in the citizen.Education centred only in any one of these aspects is incomplete.It reaches its acme only when all these qualities are attained.So the ethics of education is to serve the society being a member who availed so many inexplicable concessions at the expense of the society and the love and affection they got which cannot be measured in any way.
Democracy has never been given a respectable place as what it deserves.In the same manner we have not realized the importance of the study of political science in its true sense in our educational system.What should be done through political education is to inculcate humanitarian outlook,democratic values and to bring up a group of disciplinarian and obedient students which may inturn make responsible,co-operative and broad minded citizens for our nation.................
