The document discusses the role of education in development. It outlines that teachers should facilitate learning, act as compassionate counselors, and be role models for students. Students should be trained to think critically and creatively, and question assumptions. Books should stimulate thought and open new ideas. Educational institutions should continually transform to provide equitable, scholarly pursuits. Schools should serve as learning havens and community centers. As education benefits society, the ultimate aim is for humanity to glorify God as steward of the earth's resources.

1. Pagas, Mary Grace O. July 26, 2014
MaEd - SPAMAST – Digos City
EDUCATION as a TOOL of DEVELOPMENT
The Teacher’s Role
• Contact points between the learner and the knowledge, skills and values
• Facilitator, compassionate counselor and leader
• To be role models of what a good citizen and human being should be
• Create situations and an environment conducive to learning and excellence in academic
and non-academic performance
The Role of the Student
• To be trained to think critically, creatively, and innovatively, and to challenge even the
most sacrosanct intellectual assumptions and truths
• Healthy dissent should be encouraged and respected among students
Books
• Serve only as thought stimulators
• To be used to open new vistas of an ever-expanding horizon of new ideas and ways of
doing things
Transform Educational Institutions
• Be continually transformed to become better that what they are
• Dynamos of development
• Provide an atmosphere that induce scholarly pursuits
• Schools to be equitably distributed throughout the country
Schools as Little Democracies
• People’s schools, havens of learning, assembly points for community fora, as well as
centers of recreational activities for all
Transform Society
• The bigger society itself will have to continue its transformation
Widening Influence of Education
• Education, perceived as a tool of national development
• Substantial benefits of education are broadly distributes in society
The Ultimate Aim of Development
• Man’s ultimate end, that of glorifying God, his Creator, will increasingly become closer
to reality. And he should be made to realize that “the Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness
thereof,” that even his life and all that he acquires are entrusted to him by God for his
stewardship.