Education Matters

Can you imagine living all your life alone, not talking to anyone not even seeing anyone around? What?! That’s no life!

Yes, we are created to be social beings and socializing is a basic process in society. Socializing actually means to build up relationships with individuals or groups of individuals.

To be successful here, some specific skills are required: talking skills, gesture skills, a certain attitude etc. Your behavior also plays and essential role; being more precise, education is the fundamental element that makes the difference.

It is well known that one can receive education from various persons, in various places , under varied forms and in varied times of life.

The first level would be the family, as psychologists and social workers consider it the most important and prolific environment. This is the place you get your primary principles and moral values. Things you learn while you are a child are the ones which remain stocked in your memory for a long time and they are hard to be changed or abolished.

In the second level, you start going in public places such as kindergarten, school, university, workplace, etc. and you receive another sort of education, specialized in different areas.

Going further, education can be offered deliberately or unconsciously. We can take mass-media for example: it is very well known that it has such a great influence on us, and especially on children. They do not watch television, or surf the internet ,or listen to the radio with an educational purpose, but in spite of this, mass-media plays and extremely important role in education, very frequently having a negative influence.

In addition, education can also be auto-made. After reaching the age where you start rationing and taking serious decisions, you start selecting what is good and wrong, what is important and what is unimportant, how to treat certain individuals and so on.

This means that you auto-educate yourself. We have to admit that this has a great importance and you are to do this all of life, because every day you encounter new situations and persons, and you just have to know how to respond.

However, education does not follow the same patterns in every corner of the world; we can say that education depends on geographical and historical terms.

Exemplifying, what things are general valid in one part, are completely misunderstood in another part: Russian boys are educated to cross feet when they sit down, but if you do such a thing in the U.S.A you are considered to be a homosexual. This is a banal example, but there are many other things that follow this pattern exactly.

Dr. Jung states that you can speak about the word "education" only from the age of 2. Until then, it is considered that the children are not educated, they are being trained, because they don’t use they ration in order to act, they are just…trained to do so. He also says that both training and education are based on the same fundamental truth: achievement crowned with reward.

So, children are asked to do something knowing that if they fulfill that particular demand they will be awarded, with sweets, with a hug, a kiss, or with gratitude.

Moreover, specialists develop special programs for parents who want to offer a good education to their children. I think all of these programs must be mixed with parental love and understanding, and with the culture they are living in.

We could say that education is something hereditary, that your parents inherited from their parents and so on, but there are facts which clearly demonstrate that this is not necessarily true.

For example, there are children who grow up in families with alcoholic parents and they receive a precarious education, still, when they have their own families they do the exact opposite, willing that their children shall have a better life than they had. It is very sad that it is not always happening this way.

Parents who received a poor education and had a miserable life as children, repeat the history with their new families. It can be for two reasons: the first one is the desire to get vengeance (might sound cruel and not human, but there are many cases like this worldwide) and the second on is ignorance and fear of trying a new style of life.

In conclusion, education is a fundamental process and should be done with great responsibility and devotement, because the future of those who pass through it depends on the quality of education.