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Literacy v/s Education
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Literacy v/s Education
India is among one of the major countries that is recognized as a knowledge and education hub. It has got a talent pool in different pools including medicine, management, technology and others. Many big companies prefer to hire the human resources from India as it has got a higher number of management graduates passing every year. However, the one question that strikes here is literacy another name of education? If the country has high literacy levels, does it mean country has highly educated people? Let us analysis the fight literacy v/s education:
• Literacy and education are termed as same thing but the literacy has got indirect relation with education. Literacy is about acquiring the skills and learning, while education is about applying these skills and learning for benefit of other people. Society or country.
• Literacy mainly revolves around acquiring the ability to read and write whereas education is about overall development of a person making it a complete human who not only read or
write but also has the ability to think in broader terms and analysis the things rationally.
• Every literate person cannot be called an educated person. Education is a much broader concept than literacy.
• Literacy cannot make a person wise but education makes a person wiser and provides with the understanding of distinguishing between right and wrong.
• The learning received while becoming a literate can be forgotten but education lives when even the learning is forgotten.
• Literacy might make people feel superior to others, but only educated people are superior who know how to respect elders and pay due importance to their colleagues work.
• The people who can read and write, but use abusive and fowl language are literate but definitely not educated.
• Literate people working at higher positions and misusing their positions and degrading others are the biggest example of uneducated people.
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Let us take an example of a chef. Many people know how to cook but not all of them are called chefs. Similarly, in case of driving, many people knows the functionality and working of all parts of the vehicle, say brake, clutch, accelerator, steering and many more, but that does not make them a perfect driver. To become a driver, one must have good practice.
Literacy cannot make a person wise but education can. An educated man can only bring around changes in society and contribute to the development of society, which leads to the development of the nation. In India, almost all the literate persons knows the saying “Honesty is the best policy”. But the question arises whether all of them practise it in their life and daily activities. I think each one of us knows the answer to this question. The answer is ‘no’. Very few people practice it in reality, though everyone knows it. We deliberately try to eschew the fact and this is something which differentiates between an educated mind and a literate mind.
We can think of an educated India if we have a literate India. Literacy is a step towards education and if one fails in this basic step then it becomes difficult to be educated. A person who is literate in a language is considered illiterate when he goes to a foreign land having another language but his behaviour will reflect his educated mind everywhere.
To make people and children educated, we must take care of the teaching methodology. We must have efficient and eminent teachers who can educate the young generations as the mind once enlightened cannot become dark. Nowadays, we learn for grades. We follow discrimination among the children on the basis of their academic grades. The students of different capabilities must be mixed together in a proper order without discrimination so that they can learn from each other. Everybody has his or her own capability and interest. We must encourage them to excel in the fields in which they desire to grow. They must be provided with the option to develop themselves. If we judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree then we are making a fool of us only. While teaching a child, both parents and teachers, should keep in their mind the quote of Margaret Mead: “Child must be taught how to think and not what to think.”
The goal of education is not necessarily the mastery of a subject but mastery of a person.
I would like to end by Joseph Addison’s quote: “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”