Education is something that many have said much about. The majority of them are complicated or vague. Think about the Greek philosopher Aristotle’s saying that education is ‘an ornament in prosperity’ and ‘a refuge in adversity’. There have been a great many efforts to describe this description, but none have quite succeeded in satisfying my curiosity. Alternatively, this is exactly what the English essayist Joseph Addison has to say about education: What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. This also, has a great many explanations and elaborations. But does this really tell us exactly what education is? Does this tell us why we are in need of education? Not really, because the idea of the soul is, till date, a dark place. So how can we start to understand what everyone claims is vital to life nowadays? To put it simply, education is a process of educating our thoughts so that we can employ it in a field of our decision: that is the reason we have education not as a single seamless entity, but as a whole composed of different divisions: music education, scientific and technological education, art education, even teacher instruction.
Education can be Considered like choosing and eating a fruit. Picking a specific fruit on the tree is akin to selecting a field to obtain an education of. When we bite into it, we get our first taste of this subject. As we chew on the bitten part, we start to comprehend its different aspects – the tastes, textures, intricacies and complexities of it – and if we are ready to proceed to another portion, we consume what we have assimilated so much so that it could be used for additional application. The tree we receive the fruit from is the whole body of previous thinkers’ teachings and the voice which tells us that fruit to select is the interpreter of the knowledge: the instructor.
Throughout the Lifelong plan of education no, it is not like college or school which ends after a fixed period of time, we get to learn about things that always were, still are and always will be about us waiting to be recognized and acknowledged. Lighting plays a central role in education – both literally and metaphorically – for visual inputs would be the best learnt and with no light – of the sun or electric – we would be passing up an entire world of knowledge. In actuality, this is where phrases such as ‘light of knowledge’, ‘throw light on the matter’, ‘kept in the dark’ and so on came out.