Essay: Education for all
Outline
1-Introduction
2- Education
3- politics
4- failure of democracy
5- intellectual training
The right to education means that the State should make adequate provision for
educating its citizens. Education sharpens intellect, equips individuals with
the capacity to work and train them in the art of citizenship.
Citizenship has been defined “as the contribution of one's
instructed judgment to the public good."
Education is an indispensable condition to free individual
development and makes man fit for the tasks of citizenship. Laski says, “In the
long run, power belongs to those who can formulate and grasp ideas.”
An uneducated individual can neither understand politics nor
can he become vigilant about his interests and
The right to education means that the State should make adequate provision for educating its citizens. Education sharpens intellect, equips individuals with the capacity to work and train them in the art of citizenship.
Citizenship has been defined “as the contribution of one's
instructed judgment to the public good."
Education is an indispensable condition to free individual
development and makes man fit for the tasks of citizenship. Laski says, “In the
long run, power belongs to those who can formulate and grasp ideas.”
An uneducated individual can neither understand politics nor
can he become vigilant about his interests and
consequently
his actual participation in the affairs of the State is generally negligible.
Such a citizen is bound to be the slave of others. He will not have the
opportunity to rise to the false stature of his personality. He will go through
life a stunted being whose impulses have never been ordered by reason into
creative experiment.
This means the failure of democracy, for the people who are
ultimate masters will not be able to exercise their franchise intelligently or
perform their other civic duties satisfactorily. Hence, the democratic slogan
is: “Educate the masters.’' Apparently, the right to education is a civil right,
but really, it is a political right as it safeguards them.
Right to education does not, however, mean an identical
intellectual training for all citizens. It only means provision for that type
of .education which should give an equal opportunity to all citizens in that
branch of knowledge for which they have an aptitude. Then, there should be a
compulsory minimum level of education below which no one may fail, if he is to
conform to the standard of a good citizen.
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