Education - Should it be about nurturing creative, critical thinking individuals who behave in a socially responsible way
How does our society define an educated person? Is it someone who has the ability to read, write and comprehend certain skills and then apply them in daily life to earn a living? Or is it someone who has the ability to read, write and comprehend certain skills and then apply them in daily life in a morally correct way to earn a living? Should education aid, assist and motivate the person to behave in a socially responsible way while putting the skills developed through the academic system into practice? Or should it just develop the skills required to earn a living without aiding, assisting or motivating the child to behave in a socially responsible way? An education system that nurtures people who are experts in their fields but have no sound understanding of life is bound to evolve a dysfunctional society. Education has to take into account the multiple dimensions of this life if it intends to achieve the desired results. One of the verses of Quran tells us what education should