School !

If ‘education’does not develop the God given potential of a child harmoniously, if he or she does not learn the skills that are fundamentally required to live as a human being, if the child does not in a free and fearless atmosphere learn to see unity between man, nature and society, if he or she does not learn to fly in the imaginative universe slowly and steadily after the wings are strong enough, if arrangements are not made for all these essentials adequately by what is called the state, the concept does nor deserve the praise by the intellectual that it claims! What seems practically evident in and out of school is that education is a farce at least in the collective sense as all the people living on the globe get very little attention of parents or people who claim they educate for even literacy .Therefore at the basic level mankind has to go a long way before genuine claims of educational provision are made. Till then we are far behind on the scale of progress! In our world in spite of its claims of progress and modernity ,education continues to be a controlled social organ! The state uses educational institutions as tools to realize policies. Even electronic media and religious pulpit is politically maneuvered ! Divisions like caste and class or race and minority grouping is directly and indirectly maintained by education and propaganda.Printed materials like books and newspapers are controlled not to disturb the basic political ideology . Mechanisms for this purpose are various, depending upon people’s consciousness and resistance to things that thwart real freedom. No doubt the canvas of education has greatly extended and we have more interactions today than ever before but real freedom in educational matters is still not realized completely or satisfactorily!

Contributed By 
Prof Habib 
Prof of education 
email:habib.zabarwan@gmail.com