What are the purposes of formal education?

The purposes of formal education can include the following:

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Formal education is necessary for individual development and a country's progress. Formal education has always been a prerequisite and not an alternative of a country and its people.

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What are the purposes of formal education?

The purposes of formal education can include the following:

The main purpose of education is to teach people to think rather than what to think.

The purpose of formal education is a knowledge source to enhance students’ skills, methods to capitalize and motivate their curiosity to improve their wellness and understand  how their environment works. 

Seymour Sarason (Hargreaves, 2001) states that the overarching purpose of schooling is to stimulate, capitalize on, and sustain the kind of motivation, intellectual curiosity, awe, and wonder that children possess when they begin schooling

Hargreaves, A. (2001). “Saymour Sarason, 1919-“. In Palmer, J.A. (Ed.). Fifty modern thinkers on education. From Piaget to the present (pp. 133-142). New York, N.Y.: Routledge.

Provides systematic, factual and authentic knowledge.Helps pupil to lead discipline life and be as self-reliance, self-determination and self- esteem.

Gandhiji says if I learn carpentry from a illiterate carpenter  only I know how to do carpentry work, but if I learn carpentry from a literate person my thoughts will be stimulated.

It also helps pupil to mould themselves as a self- learned man and plan his future according to his desire. 

A person with a formal education can not be deceived by some other person easily.

A person with formal education will be able to practice discipline.

A person becomes logical and sensible if he/she has formal education.

Formal education is necessary for becoming eligible for practicing professions to best of his/her ability with professional ethics and honesty.

The fundamental proposal of the formal Education as it is conceived is to guarantee the bases for the continuity of the tertiary studies and to articulate with the national development objectives, however, the problem of the Educational Environment is essential. A good school where it is good to go and learn.

If the school is not pleasant, the formal education stops making sense and the amount of investment made is in danger of being lost.

Traditionally, we have been working in the classrooms with competitive and independent methods that have only produced particular results and not group, this has contributed to promote individualism, but now, in view of the changes that are taking place in the different areas of the Education, It is imperative that teachers are trained, adopt and implement innovative pedagogical techniques and strategies that lead to promote meaningful learning in the classroom.

In this sense, self-learning, teamwork, cooperative learning, interactive, the use of ICT, etc., are innovative teaching techniques, although they are not new, they have not been widely used, but nowadays they are essential to have an impact on the achievement of school learning.

If this is resolved, formal education will to fulfill its purpose to a large extent.

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