AN APPRAISAL TO APPLIED EDUCATION

Does the education apply or approve?
 
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.” Bill Beattie

The current status of education is far behind the indented purpose. The competitive attempt to survive negotiated the fixed transformative goal. The mere imparting knowledge had marred the rich concept education. The post modern educational theorist have fractioned the whole aspects of education in two words, purpose and functions.

A purpose is the fundamental goal of the process—an end to be achieved. Functions are other outcomes that may occur as a natural result of the process. This caused the whole purpose of education is just to transmits the knowledge for futuristic desired goal. However the major crux of the purpose education, ie, function remains as a targeted goal. Consequently this became ‘never achieved’ or ‘unattainable’ task.
These factors played as the predominant factors for the inception of ‘Applied Education’. Applied Educational institutions concentrate on various fields promising high level research in education and focusing on learning and instructions. Each institution struggle their maximum to reflect current belief and effective approach. Qualitative education = Quantitative payment, this became the alerting slogan for the so called applied educational institutions.

Globally and even regionally education doesn’t serve the purpose of applied education. Now the encounter is what do we expect from the education? Is it MONEY with MISTERY or MIND with MIRACLE? This doesn’t require revising the curriculum, but definitely require revising the function of education. The current common aspects of life are unknown to the educationist.

The most urgent need is function of education should go in hand with the purpose of education. Educationist must achieve the self realization of the purpose of manhood to transform than to just transmit. This ambition will definitely raise the educationist beyond the author and content, tools and tricks to facts and figures. As the above stated question today education approve the existing status quo rather than to apply. All educations must be applied and committed for the transformation of humanity,