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1.Education, Knowledge and Understanding
-Quality education must involve knowledge, knowing and understanding
-Learning is a process, an activity, a task that may lead to knowing - but not necessarily.
-Knowing on the other hand is a product, an accomplishment, an achievement, an outcome.
-It’s critical therefore to note that one is said to have acquired knowledge and understanding when one has internalized what ---s/he has learnt; that is, one has internalized the grounds for belief and conviction.
-Knowledge must affect the person personally and change or transform that person
-Knowledge is therefore a result of an activity by the person. It cannot be acquired passively. The individual must be actively and directly involved
-It is in this sense that education is supposed to TRANSFORM an individual into one who thinks for oneself.
2.Education and Liberation
Quality education must play an important role in liberating individuals from narrow-mindedness. It must widen the scope of awareness and perceptibility of issues.
When we talk of awareness we mean awareness that is critical and reflective.
This means that education makes us critically and reflectively aware of our potentials/possibilities but also our limitations.
This awareness may lead to self-reliance and the ability of an individual to realize oneself
A learner is somebody who is not yet self-reliant or independent – hence education must make the learner self-reliant and independent.
Self-reliance is an ideal to be pursued both at individual and social level
Thus, education must liberate and hence transform individuals and societies into independence and self-reliance. This is quite urgent in Africa (Kwasi Wiredu).
marto answered the question on May 2, 2019 at 05:22
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