Education: Education Is Life

As we accept as true and seek out to improve and change today’s system of education, we would do well to ask, “What is education?” most of them are accepted that, in the 21st century children and adults alike. Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. According to educational philosopher John Dewey (1916), “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself”. Education in its general sense is any form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. “Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others directly or indirectly. Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks,

In fact, education is about in-parting knowledge based on one’s belief, truth and justification with the purpose of surviving in this changing world. Highly educated people are well recognized and given high reputation in the society. Hence, teaching is a process of sharing information between the teacher and students in a positive, caring, changing and stress free environment where new knowledge must be constructed and tested through student – teacher interaction using different strategies so that children could master knowledge and skills of desired fields including values, ethics, and other social knowledge. To fulfil this purpose, teachers should be active, forward thinking, energetic, knowledgeable, sincere and punctual for changing one’s truth, belief and justification. To satisfy these educational needs, learning should be a fun mechanism for students in which they enjoy by responding, interacting, socializing, inventing, sharing, discovering and deciding about knowledge, skills, values, ethics and discipline by expressing a permanent change in behaviour. As learning is defined as a permanent change in behaviour, it is my personal interest to consider teaching as a personal challenge in which students are diverted to a more progressive learning environment where they make their own judgment based on what they experience with exposure to real life like activities. With this as my personal interest in the field, it is a sensation for me to focus on the whole child considering learning as a whole day mechanism which I consider as every step, and breath, whether it is in the class or at home, they take favours a kind of learning including knowledge, ethics morality and