What is meant by saying that education is not an end, buy a means to an end
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But we can already see that free education
for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university
degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their degrees, they refuse to do what
they think “low” work; and, in fact, work with the hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in
such countries.
But we have to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely
uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor: we can live without
education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish
away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our owns. In countries where
there are no servants because everyone is ashamed to do such work, professors have to
waste much of their time doing housework.
In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means
that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever job is
suited to his brain and ability, and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary
to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed of one’s work, or to scorn someone else’s.
Only such a type of education can be called valuable to society.
Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them; our purpose is to fit them for life. As soon as we realize this fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a system of education which will really prepare children for life. It is not enough just to choose the first system of education one finds, or to continue with one’s old system of education without examining it to see whether it is in fact suitable or not.
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we do not educate children only for the purpose of education them our purpose is to fit them for life