Education plays a pivotal role in making the human personality and shaping the human life. But as of now, the education falls short of people’s high expectation.
Concept of Education: Education, in ordinary sense of the term, means enlightenment. To educate means to enlighten one, i.e., to make one aware of what one did not know or what one is ignorant of. Ever since the inception or rise of intellect in human being, man awoke with certain cardinal questions, seeking the truth about oneself and one's life, truth about one's surroundings, the truth about the world and the truth about the ultimate goal of one's life. The cardinal questions such as who am I; what is this world and what is the goal of one's life etc. have been haunting the man. It is in quest of the truth of life and this world that man invented different branches of knowledge or education. Human being, in course of its journey from ignorance to knowledge, came to know that human life is not only a lump or a corpus of bones and flesh, nor it is only a biological machine, nor it is only a psychic phenomenon, nor it is only a beholder or container of spiritual prowess, rather it is a curious amalgamation and complex composition of body, mind and soul (Atma), a wonderful manifestation of spirituo-psycho-physical phenomenon. Thus human life is tri-farious, i.e., physical, psychic and spiritual. Hence, mere imparting of knowledge of alphabets and books is not education, rather education is systematic and sustained efforts to unfold and develop one's latent physical, psychic and spiritual potentialities in order to unite the psyche with the self. That is why it has been said, "Knowing oneself is the real knowledge". Education should aim at integrated, i.e., tri-farious development of personality.
