• Home
  • Login
  • Registration
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • RSS
ESLarticle.com
Tweet
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Blog
  • Members
  • Add Article

Top Categories

Teaching 509
Other 210
Classroom Management 138
Career Development 135
Learning Methodology 121
Study Skills 90
E-Learning/CALL 87
English Language Learning (ELL) 78
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) 77
Teaching Methodology 76
English Language Teaching (ELT) 73
English as a Second Language (ESL) 64
Teach in Shanghai
Home / Articles / Other / View Article

Publishing

  • Articles
  • Add Article
  • Articles Archive
  • Latest Articles
  • Popular Articles

Latest Articles

Jan 5, 2019

Metacognition in Reading Competency

As related to the reading process, metacognition can be defined as contemplation concerning one's own thinking processes or knowledge of one's own...

Jan 5, 2019

Mass Media Literacy Reflections for Language Instructions

"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself." Galileo Galilei Mass media forms thrive today. As development...

Nov 30, 2018

Ideas for the First Class with New Learners

~~The first class with new learners can be an anxious one for all concerned – teacher as well as learners. Below are some tips to make that first...

Nov 19, 2018

10 Amazing Hacks for English Learners

10 Amazing Hacks for English Learners It is estimated that there are over a billion English speakers in the world, including native speakers,...

Nov 15, 2018

Building Reading and Writing Knowledge with Very Young Children at Hom

Education Today, December 2013 Building Reading and Writing Knowledge with Very Young Children at Home  Timothy G. Weih University of Northern...

Popular Articles

1127843 Views

5 Creative Ways to Decorate Your Classroom Bulletin Board This Winter

Back to school, fall leaves, Thanksgiving and Christmas all easily lend themselves to great decorating themes, but what to do when those are over...

366767 Views

Three Unique Ideas To Make Your Bulletin Board More Useful

Bulletin boards have long been existent in campuses. They have proven to be such versatile and useful aids in both the learning and teaching...

133183 Views

History of the Chalkboard

Walk into just about any classroom and you will find one: A dark green board on the wall, lined with pieces of chalk and felt erasers. Chalkboards,...

62939 Views

Report Card Comments

For a small minority, writing report cards isn't a big deal. But most teachers generally dread report card writing time. Completing the comment...

41397 Views

The Most Useful American Business Words

The Most Useful American Business Words: Here's a list that will come in handy for any student enrolled in an English as a Second Language (ESL)...


The Essentials of Education

by swati gupta

Aug 11, 2008 Other 3608 Views

A traveler studies the menu on a transatlantic liner or, indeed, in some American hotels a paralyzing sensation. There is so much to eat--for more than he can possibly digest. One sometimes has the same feeling about education, which also offers an enormous bill of fare. Almost any dish can be found in it, from Greek to stenography, from music to economics. How are we to choose from the bewildering profusion? What dishes ought we to order if we wish not merely to fill ourselves up, but to get the nourishment necessary to a healthy life, to become really educated people?

That question cannot be answered without asking and answering another--what is education for? If that problem were suddenly put to pupils in school, at to students in college, or even to their parents, I doubt if all of them could, on the spur of the moment, give a clear and convincing reply. Most of us are educated because our parents with it, or because attendance at school is a habit of our society, or because it is compulsory, or because it is apparently necessary to success in be conclusive reasons for desiring education or, at any getting from it what it has to give; and if we go to back of out minds, we are likely to rise from our meal there replete perhaps but ill-nourished. Let me, therefore, start by asking what we should seek in education. In answering this question, I shall ignore to concentrate on the most important of all.

Get hold of the catalogues of the colleges in the United States.
You will find courses in innumerable subjects. Is there any common feature in these courses? Is there any aim which all of them have? I think that there is a common feature and that every course given has a similar aim. They all aim at the first-rate; the purpose of every course is to help the student to learn what is first-rate in the particular subject which he studies. If it is a course in English, the aim is that he should know what is good English; if it is a course in agriculture, that he should know the best methods in framing; if it is a course in cookery or in dressmaking, it is to show the pupil how to cook or to make dresses really well. The same is true of a course in any other subject--its aim is to show what is first-rate in that subject. This is the common thread that runs through all education. Whether we are teachers or students, we ought to get firmly in our minds the idea that whatever else may come by the way, education will be incomplete and unsatisfactory if it fails to give a clear view of what if first-rate in the subject studied. Otherwise we may have got some knowledge, but we shall not have got education.

Educated activities spring from the creative and intellectual faculties of human nature, such as literature, art, architecture and music. I should life to add sciences and architecture, but in these two subjects it is difficult for any but the expert to estimate quality, and many educated people have not the close knowledge necessary to judge work in them. On the other hand everyone has close and daily contract with the other four.
Architecture surrounds him in every city, literature meets him on every bookstall, music assails his ears on his radio set and form and color is a part of daily life. The architecture may often be bad, the literature and music often puerile, the art often undeserving of the name; but that is all the more reason why we should be able, in all of then, to distinguish good from bad.

To judge by the literature offered us in hotel bookstands, and by most of the music played on the radio and by juke-boxes, we might be more discriminating in these fields than we are. If it be said that music and art and literature are not essentials of life but its frills, I would reply that, if so, it is curious that they are among the few immortal things in the world, and that, should a man which to be remembered two thousand years hence, the only certain way is to write a great poem or book, compose a great symphony, paint a great picture, carve a great sculpture, or build a great picture. If you have any doubts about this, consider why long-dead people like, Plato and Shakespeare, Michelangelo and Raphael, Ictinus and Bramante, are remembered today.
 

Article source: http://eslarticle.com/pub/other/70-the-essentials-of-education.html

  • General Information
Author Info

Author Name: swati gupta

About Author: swati gupta

Most Recent Articles

  • Oct 6, 2018 Ideas on How to Reduce the Stress of Teaching by swati gupta
  • Sep 26, 2018 Play schools – The best option of learning for your child by swati gupta
  • Mar 15, 2018 Educational games for kids | Build skills by bonding by swati gupta
  • Aug 26, 2017 How To Select Your SBMPTN Tutoring Service? by swati gupta
  • Jun 28, 2017 Simple ways to ensure you undergo personal growth development by swati gupta

Actions

  • Print Page

Articles Archive

  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020

Random Articles

Teaching

Meeting Student Expectations - Advice for Teachers

Most teachers of almost any subject have something in mind in terms of what they will teach their students. As teachers who have taken many...

Teaching

Ideas for Rhythmic Teaching

Every process has a rhythm as in a process of making a food. In a certain time quick and skillful actions are required, while in another time slow...

English Language Learning (ELL)

How Languages Create and Control the Mindset and Behavior of People!

Most people still today mistakenly regard the arts and crafts of individual societies as their "culture." Arts and crafts reflect culture but they...

Pronunciation/Phonics

American Accent Vs Indian Accent

In my job teaching the American accent, I advise and coach many people who were born in India but now work in the US. Thousands of Indian born...

English as a Foreign Language (EFL)

4 Characteristics of Successful EFL Students

Why are some students successful with learning languages and others struggle? Successful language learners tend to have four common characteristics.

About ESL Article

ESL Article is a private ESL/TEFL site designed and maintained by educators and educational administrators. It was launched in August 2008 with the aim of bringing ESL/TEFL students, parents, teachers and schools information and articles about the teaching profession and learning community.

Icon Group Member

ESL Article is a member of Icon Group Thailand (IGT), a group of ESL TEFL TESOL websites providing educational resources and information to teachers, schools and students around the world. The group was founded in 2003 and now includes 15+ websites covering educational information services, teaching resources and e-learning.

What is ESL?

English as a second language (ESL) is the use or study of English by speakers of different native languages. It is also known as English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), English as an additional language (EAL), and English as a foreign language (EFL).

  • Home
  • Registration
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Help
  • Partner
  • Contact Us
  • About Us
​

© 2021 ESLarticle.com.
Member of Icon Group Thailand - Educating the Future:
TESall All TESOL  Total ESL  ESL Job Feed
TEFL World  TEFL Jobs Overseas  Teach Overseas
Asia TEFL  ESL Powerpoint  Teacher Training