Education begins at home. It is enhanced, widened, deepened, and refined in school. It is applied, tested, challenged, and further enhanced in the workplace. It is purified and synthesized in old age and accompanies the person in the journey towards death. The whole of life is education.
At home, the child learns the very basic and fundamental requirements of living: love, respect, care, and all the fundamental values needed for a healthy society. This is an important phase in education because it is the foundation of character formation.
Early formal education in school would enhance what has been learned at home and also corrects those manifestations that are not helpful in the total well being of the child with the cooperation of the parents. Later stages would deal with the acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will help develop the child into a caring and responsible member of society.
Education continues in the workplace. The young worker would learn a lot of values that were taken for granted in earlier years like the value of money, work, relationships, independence, learn new skills required for work and would take on roles laden with responsibilities. Successes and failures would be great learning opportunities that will usher maturity.
The years will filter out all these learning experiences giving birth to wisdom. It is now the flowering of the educational processes undergone through life. It is seen in the contented smile of an old woman, in the serene look of a man, in the understanding nod of a grandmother, in the compassionate presence of a grandfather.
The final test of real education is the moment when the person bade farewell to this life and faces the next. It is a gracious letting go in order to surrender to God all that has been in the past. Successes and failures will be forgotten but the love shared during ones lifetime will endure forever.
Education then is life and the essence of that life is love. Therefore, EDUCATION is LIFE and LOVE.
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