Education is the greatest force that can be
used to bring about change. It is also the greatest investment that a nation
can make for the quick development of
its economic, political, sociological and human resources .
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in
which knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one
generation to the next through teaching, training, research, or simply through autodidacticism.[1] Generally, it occurs through any experience that
has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts.
Quotation: ISLAM GIVES GREAT
IMPORTANCE TO EDUCATION.I Would like to add a very important quotation by our
great PROPHET HAZRAT MUHAMMAD (S.A.W).
Acquisition of knowledge is a religious
obligation of each Muslim man and woman
There are
two basic and important types of education which are necessary for the uplift
of a countru these two types are primary education and secondary education.
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This is education
given normally to children aged between six and eleven years and above. Since
the rest of the educational system is built upon it, the primary level is the
key to the success or failure of the whole system.
The state and local governments have the constitutional responsibility for primary education but private sector, represented by individuals, communities, religious groups, and voluntary agencies are permitted to own and run primary schools. Primary education is the FOUNDATION of the character building of th children and these children are the future of a country |
Elementary school was formerly
the name given to publicly funded schools in Great
Britain[citation needed] which provided a basic standard of education
for working
class children
aged from five to 14, the school leaving age at the time. They were also known as
industrial schools.
Elementary schools were set up to
enable working
class children
to receive manual training and elementary instruction. They provided a
restricted curriculum with the emphasis on reading, writing and arithmetic (the three Rs In Saudi Arabia, elementary
school includes grade 1 through 6
Secondary
education has increasingly become a central policy concern of developing
countries, particularly among those that have made rapid progress in
universalizing primary education and among those in which the demographic trend
has shifted in favor of adolescents. The majority of countries in Latin America
and the Caribbean, East Asia, and the Middle East, as well as some African
countries, are grappling with the questions of how to provide skills and
knowledge that enable adolescents to move to tertiary education and how to
ensure a smooth transition to work for students whose education will end with
secondary schooling.Secondary education also addresses problems unique in human development. Without requisite education to guide their development, not only would young people be ill prepared for tertiary education or for the workplace, but they would also be susceptible to juvenile delinquency and teen pregnancy, thereby exacting a high social cost. Hence the challenge for secondary education is enormous. It represents an unfinished agenda that all countries will face as they develop.
Secondary Education in Europe and the United States
In Europe, higher education, including secondary education, began with training in religion and philosophy. Its purpose was to prepare leaders–especially religious leaders–and its curriculum reflected this purpose. As time passed, general topics for more applied professions were added as part of secondary and higher education curricula, and the curriculum was broadened accordingly. As these general topics were gradually added to the curriculum, they remained philosophical or theoretical in orientation. They were not studied as systems of empirical data, and proofs and validation of knowledge were theoretical rather than experimental.
Education and literacy rate in pak: Only 80% of Pakistani children finish primary school education.[12] The standard national system of education is mainly inspired from the British system.
Qualitative Dimension
In Pakistan, the quality of
education has a declining trend. Shortage of teachers and poorly equipped
laboratories has resulted in the out-dated curriculum that has little relevance
to present day needs.[14]
Quantitative Dimension
Causative factors include
defective curricula, dual medium of instruction, poor quality of teachers,
cheating in the examinations and overcrowded classrooms. However, efforts are
on the way of moulding the curriculum to meet its national requirements.[14
Organization and subject content. A single nationally set curriculum consistently delivered is a successful educational procedure at the primary level. Where flexibility and student choice are present there is widespread consensus that this should begin after primary school, although whether or not flexibility should begin in lower secondary, where it exists, is still debated. The decision as to whether a curriculum should prepare specialist or generalist knowledge and skills is often decided on the basis of whether a particular level is seen as preparatory or terminal. The trend appears to be one in which the mandated curriculum of the lower secondary grades, or their equivalent by whatever name, is a linear extrapolation of primary school.
Primary schools are almost always general-purpose institutions with considerable social and political consensus surrounding their mission, which is, simply put, to prepare all children for competent adulthood by giving them basic literacy and numeracy skills and, in many countries, an explicit set of moral values. The situation at the secondary level is vastly more complex. Nevertheless, a growing number of countries, often for political and economic reasons rather than pedagogical, put together in a single, all-purpose school, students from different backgrounds, with different needs, abilities, and interests
Conclusion:to conclude I would like to say tthat
sound primary and secondary educations are necessary for the uplift of a
country.and I recommend that every nation should make strong polices to
increase their literacy rate because a countey’s power can be judged by its
literarcy rate also.because we know education makes a country strong socially
religiously and economically.
