Why education is not mere schooling?

Highlights

(a) Not mere schooling.

(b) Not acquisition of inert knowledge.

(c) No training of mind.

(d) Not to encourage conformity.

(a) Not mere schooling

It is traditional to identify education wit school. It is a narrow view of education. All that goes on within the four walls of the class-room is educative only to a limited extent.

(b) Not acquisition of inert knowledge

Much of what goes o] within the four walls of the class-room is inert knowledge. Even the school method is ineffective. Knowledge, to be educative, must highlight the significance of life.

(c) Not merely a training of mind

Education is not merely matter of training of the mind, says Krishnamurti. He adds: “A mini that has merely been trained is the continuation of the past, and such a mind can never discover the new to find out what is right education we will have to inquire into the whole significance of living.”

(d) Not to encourage conformity

Education should not encourage the individual to conform to society or to be negatively harmonious with it. Conformity leads to mediocrity. Mediocrity kills spontaneity and breeds fear.

We may conclude in the words of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan: “Education, to be complete, must be humane; it must include not only the training of the intellect but also the refinement of the heart and the discipline of the spirit.”