Education is the most powerful tool which can be used to develop a Character & thus a Society

If we ask a student of today that why he does study, he will give answers like – to secure good marks, to earn a degree, to gain respect in the society, to make their parents happy etc. But these are really subtle answers, they aren’t well thought of. We as humans are in a habit of not going too deep to a question as it requires efforts, it takes time, it threatens our present schemas. We just do things without thinking much of their actual aim and consequence.

The ultimate aim of education is to build both Intuition & Conscience. Intuition is the ability to predict future. By having the knowledge of past & present happenings we can reasonably predict what will happen in the future. If we can predict we can plan for it. If we can plan, we can prepare ourselves for it. Conscience refers to the ability to judge between right & wrong. Better a man is educated, better he will distinguish right from wrong. The more right decisions he make the better character he will have. With better character more effective life he will make, both of people & of his own self.

Thus one can say that the aim of education is to make us a better decision maker & the consequence of education is to build an effective character, an effective man, and thus an effective society.