Education is a lifelong process that encompasses experiences beyond the classroom, serving as both a product and a process that reflects societal culture. It plays a crucial role in fostering democratic values, promoting tolerance, and reducing conflicts within diverse populations. Additionally, education empowers individuals and communities by enhancing skills, reducing crime, and creating employment opportunities.

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Broader Meaning of Education
Education is not limited to class room or school only. It is
considered to be a lifelong process. Education encompasses all life
experience that the child receives in the school or at home, in the
community and society through interactions of various sorts and
activities.
Education as process and Product
There is always a controversy whether education is a process or a
product. Mostly we consider education as a product that is
something that has been produced as a result of certain inputs.
Education becomes a product only when it assimilates the culture
of any society and it transmitted from one generation to another.
Education is considered as an active and a dynamic process during
one’s life by way of various experiences through either in a formal
or in an informal manner. In this process he or she learns to utilize
one’s experiences in learning new things. So it can be said that
education is a product as well as a process.
Education as a Natural Process

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Education is considered to be a natural process by some
educationists. Education takes place spontaneously in human
beings through their experiences in nature.
Maria Montessori, say education is a natural process
spontaneously carried out by the human individual and is acquired
by experiencing in the environment.
According to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi a great philosopher,
Education is natural harmonious and progressive development of
man’s innate powers. It’s believed that education consists in the
development from within of potentialities rather than externally.
There is no end to education, the whole of life from the moment
you are born to the moment you die is a process of learning.

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Education is important in the creation of any
democratic society
As Franklin D. Roosevslt says “Democracy cannot succeed unless
those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely.”
Education is needed to make a society
geopolitically stable
One of the most important effects education has on society is
giving the people who live in a society the skills they need to
produce technological goods and the skills they need to compete
in the global marketplace.
Education gives people the knowledge they
need to elect capable leaders
Plato stated, “In politics we presume that everyone who knows
how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state.”
Education helps promote tolerance in a society
It helps reduce common conflicts between diverse populations in
an urban setting.
Education has the power to help societies, and
the world in general, change for the better
According to Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful
weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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Education is important because it helps
members in a society learn from the mistakes of
the past
Having an education is important because good education allows
members of society to learn from past mistakes and prevent the
same mistakes from happening in the future.
Education is the first step a society needs before
giving rights to women and other minority
groups
Education is a powerful tool that enables women and other
minority groups to gain fundamental civil rights. It is important to
treat women and other minorities with respect in the classroom.
Education reduce violence and crime in
societies
Teaching people to read has been shown to prevent people from
engaging in crime.
Education creates hope for the future
The more powerful effects of education on a society are
developing their greatest abilities.
Creating More Employment Opportunities

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The lower the education level, the greater the number of people
applying for the same low-paying entry-level post.
Learn, educate yourself, graduate and get as many qualifications,
and increase your chances of landing a fulfilling job.