Date Posted: 4/24/2012 2:24:27 AM
Posted By: Bony maurice Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 214
Education is a life long process by which people learn new ways of thought and action. It encourages changes in behavior which aim at improving the human conditions. Education belong to the process of enculturalization where the students are introduced into the culture of the society. Schools selectively transmit those values and knowledge that a society determines as appropriate through programmes in it. Culture determines the standards of behavior. For a person to perform skillfully in the society as expected of an educated person, one must have been fully brought up and trained in that culture. Education is a process by which the society through schools, colleges, universities and other institutions deliberately transmit its cultural heritage. Education is initiation into the culture of the particular society into which a child is born. Culture is the content of education and has a bearing on the school administration. The society must provide its members with the tools of communication. Language becomes crucial for socialization and education. Kenyan schools teach English and Kiswahili as the major languages of communication. The society must provide its members with tools for conditions of living. The material traits of the culture in terms of disciplines such as Agricultural Sciences, Vocational and Technical courses are essential. The society must also teach its members the aesthetic values. The teaching of arts and acquiring the means for communicating feelings is very essential. The society must prepare its members to be masters of their own physical environment. Geography and natural sciences are therefore needed by the society. Religious studies are also taught to meet the spiritual needs of the learners. The society prepares its members to live under acceptable social conditions with other members. History, Civics, Sociology and Anthropology are taught to achieve this. It must produce people who can improve on the living physical environment. It must provide courses in building and surveying. The society regulates itself in order to maintain its continued existence. It needs good government and a study of procedures for social control. Members are prepared to fight against external and internal forces that threaten the continued existence of the society. This is why military science need to be taught.
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