Objective of Education

 

The aims and objectives of Education, suggested in the documents, include individual as well as social aims, with emphasis of social transformation aiming at reconstructing society to make it modernized, productive, participative, and value oriented nation committed to its constitutional obligations.

 

Individual Development

Development of an individual – physically, mentally and spiritually is well known aim of Education. Objectives related to this aim of individual development have been expressed in various ways in the memoranda:

 

1. Developing physical and mental faculties.

 

2. Acquiring the capacities of understanding, appreciation and expression through word and act, are the fundamental aims of Education.

 

3. Aim of Education should be to make children self- confident and self dependent, and to make them strong physically and mentally

 

4. Education is meant to develop every child’s character, personality and culture and as much knowledge as the child can assimilate not merely memorize.

 

Social and national development

Social, aim of Education in equally important because an individual lives in society and has his obligations towards his nation. There is a realization that, “The present Education system does riot yield required results mainly because it is divorced from the real social content and social goals”.

 

It has, therefore, been suggested that Education should be able, to discharge its natural functions and must correspond to its structure, goals and content in the interest of national development and social progress. It has also been suggested in this connection that students from young age should be made aware of the social responsibility cast on them.

 

There are certain constitutional commitments, which are intimately related to this aim. We as the citizens of the republic, are constitutionally Committed to democracy, social justice, equality of opportunity, secularism and above all to a welfare state. It has, therefore, been suggested that, “Educational policy and Educational program should clearly reflect these commitments”.

 

Aims give direction to activities. Aims of Education are formulated keeping in view the needs of situation. Human nature is multisided with multiple needs, which are related to life. Educational aims are correlated to ideals of life.

 

The goal of Education should be the full flowering of the human on this earth. According to a UNESCO study, “the physical, intellectual, emotional and ethical integration of the individual into a complete man/woman is the fundamental aim of Education.”

 

The goal of Education is also to form children into human persons committed to work for the creation of human communities of love, fellowship, freedom, justice and harmony. Students are to be molded only by making them experience the significance of these values in the school itself. Teachers could achieve this only by the lived example of their lives manifested in hundreds of small and big transactions with students in word and deed.