Education has an immense impact on the human society. One can safely assume that a person is not in the proper sense till he is educated. It trains the human mind to think and take the right decision. In other words, man becomes a rational animal when he is educated.
It is through education that knowledge and information is received and spread throughout the world. An uneducated person cannot read and write and hence he is closed to all the knowledge and wisdom he can gain through books and other mediums. In other words, he is shut off from the outside world. In contrast, an educated man lives in a room with all its windows open towards outside world.
The quality of human resource of a nation is easily judged by the number of literate population living in it. This is to say that education is a must if a nation aspires to achieve growth and development and more importantly sustain it. This may well explain the fact that rich and developed nations of the world have very high literacy rate and productive human resource. In fact these nations have started imparting selective training and education programs so as to meet the new technical and business demands of the 21st century.
In the US, many educational institutes offer vocational as well as other training programs apart from the normal credit programs. To cater to the educational needs of the working population, many colleges offer online education. The degrees and certificates offered by these online colleges and universities are very convenient for working people as well as students. Working people needs these degrees to update their knowledge and skill level which will come handy in their promotion and achieving growth as professionals. Students can also pursue an online degree and work and earn at the same time.
In fact, certain professionals like doctors and dentists, are obliged to follow mandatory lifelong learning. This is done so that they keep pace with all the research and development done in the medical field. These professionals not only needs to update themselves about these developments, but also learn new techniques of practice and perfect old ones. Learning about patient management and the delivery of care is rather a continuing process. Since these professionals, especially doctors have huge moral responsibility towards the patients and society in general, continuing education is a must for them.
It is in such a scenario that distance education comes into the picture. Since professionals do not have the time to attend classroom classes, distance education comes as a convenient alternative. They can learn at a time convenient to them and from the comfort of their homes.
Keeping the importance of education in mind, the US Department of Education aims to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. It also establishes policies regarding federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds. It also continuously strives to focus national attention on key educational issues and providing equal access to education.
The importance of education cannot be neglected by any nation. And in today’s world, the role of education has become even more vital. It is an absolute necessity for economic and social development of any nation.
The author is a senior editor at http://www.keydegree.com You can read more articles from him on the KeyDegree website.
I learned so much from this article about why we have education. I finished the sixth grade and when I went to take my pre GED test at aged 18, the teacher asked me why I was not thinking about collage, my score was very high. I told her that education was not my first priority cause I was thinking about getting a job right away. I think that all the time I was spending at home after I had quit school was so boring that all I could find to do was read. Thank goodness that knowledge from many sources is free.
» left by Shownah from Samoa (216 days 2 hours ago.)
Yes it's a very helpful article,which guided me the idea of what education really is and its importance in my society...Well I like it...its very true..thanx..Shownah frm Samoa.
» left by Dickson Sarayi from Nairobi, Kenya (153 days 21 hours ago.)
Very very helpful. Please send me a whole manual on the importance of education in respect to globalisation, technologically changing world, Self-reliance and sustainability.
» left by jmichaelm from manila (82 days 14 hours ago.)
wow, i have this speech tomorow about the importance of education.. this article gaved me a lot of ideas for my speech.. thank you for your sharings mabuhay and god bless
» left by rijia sultana from chittagong,bangladesh (57 days 1 hour ago.)
this is really an important article. in my country most of the people are illiterate.this article inspires me to do something for my country to make people educated. thank you very much to share this. Rijia from Bangladesh.
» left by Lavish from India (29 days 19 hours ago.)
A wonderful analysis on the role education has to play in shaping the career of a person.In the twenty-first century education is more important than ever before.The developing countries also need to take recourse to the innovative techniques used by countries such as America for imparting education.It will help a lot in surging their growth as education is the primary reason behind the prosperity of country.Thank you a lot for sharing your valuable thoughts with us.It was indeed a pleasure reading them.
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