Education gives us knowledge seen Passage for HSC
Education gives us knowledge and a set of abilities to function meaningfully in life, such as the ability to decide things rationally and make the right choices. As we learn how to read, write and do the basic operations of arithmetic, we gain a degree of self-confidence. We learn to think for ourselves and articulate our thoughts; we pick up skills to communicate with others and manage our affairs well.
Education helps us think independently and make our own opinions. As we know more about the world, we appreciate the good things it offers us but also become critical of the deviations from the values it imparts and the rise of hatred or conflict that follows.
The first thing education does is to give us an awareness about ourselves which leads to the development of our personality. As we begin school, we feel the need to belong to the class and make friends. We then expand our sense of belonging to include the school at large, our community and finally our country. Education thus prepares every child to become an active member of the community and work for its welfare.
Education, it is believed, releases our potentials and our inner strengths. It sharpens our intellect and develops our creativity. As we are taught to reason well and find solutions to the problems of life we become productive members of society.
Education by definition is progressive and liberal, teaching us to respect human diversity and cultural and religious differences. If all of us practise these values in life, the world becomes a much happier place.
Education also fosters critical thinking and provides us a set of competencies including life skills that enable us to become competitive even in the most challenging of circumstances.
Education also teaches us to appreciate beauty and the bounties of nature. School, however, is not the only place where a child gets education. A Bangla poem tells us that nature can be our best teacher. Here are a couple of lines from the poem in English translation:
The sky has taught me to be liberal.
The wind has given me the motto to be industrious. If we can make nature our friend, philosopher and guide, we can learn lessons about life that, combined with what our schools teach us, will prepare us for the future.
The wind has given me the motto to be industrious. If we can make nature our friend, philosopher and guide, we can learn lessons about life that, combined with what our schools teach us, will prepare us for the future.
A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives:
(a) The word 'arithmetic' means ___.
i. The study of Physics
ii. The study of Biology
iii. The study of Mathematics
iv. The study of Chemistry
(b) 'To decide things rationally' explains ___.
i. to judge things reasonably and take wise decision
ii. to judge things madly and take hasty decision
iii. to judge things independently and take illogical decision
iv. to develop good debating power
(c) The first act of education is to develop ___.
i. personality
ii. nationality
iii. dignity
iv. brutality
(d) What does the idiom 'at large' mean?
i. Critically
ii. Dependently
iii. Entirely
iv. Surely
(e) Through education we become __ members of society.
i. rational
ii. evil
iii. common
iv. foolish
(f) The sky teaches us to be ___.
i. honest
ii. poetic
iii. liberal
iv. scientific
(g) The passage is about ___.
i. scholars of education
ii. benefits of education
iii. sources of education
iv. elements of education
(h) The meaning of the word 'hatred' is ___.
i. intense dislike
ii. love
iii. strong affection
iv. friendship
(i) We can get education ____.
i. from school only
ii. not only from educational institutions but also from family, society, nature, from experiences of life
iii. from teachers, philosophers and nature
iv. from nature only
(j) Proper education frames a child for ___.
i. the former
ii. the present
iii. the future
iv. the past
B. Answer the following questions:
(a) What does education provide us?
(b) How does a child become an active member of the community?
(c) What is accepted as true about education?
(d) How will the world become a much happier place?
(e) Do you want to make nature your friend, philosopher and guide? Why?
