Essays

According to Bacon "Reading maketh a full man; writing anexact man and conference a ready man.' And if someone askswhat reading, writing and conference make together, anyonewould say that they stand for education. In other words, wecan say that education makes anyone COMPLETE, ACCURATE and WORLDLY WISE. It means that no one is complete without education.

Thus we can confidently say that education is necessary for the all-round development of the personality of a human-being. He cannot hope for success, name, fame and prosperity in life without it. Even a nation would be devoid of anyprogress, if its citizens fail to have the benefits of education.H.L Wayland has correctly said, "Universal suffrage, withoutuniversal education, would be a curse." For the success of anydemocracy, education is a must. Imagine a country withilliterate ministers voted to power by illiterate people!

Unlorlunalely, there are many people who downgradetin- value of education and say that it has never benefitedanyone. But this is not correct. Knowledge is too far advanced today for a man to gain without its specialized branch. Trade,industry, agriculture, medicine, the I.T. and all other areashave become so complex that no one can take up any jobwithout being educated.

An educated man will never find himself stranded in themidst of any difficulty. His brain, developed by serious- thinking during his academic years, will unfailingly arrive atsome solution to the problem that besets him. This is what education prepares us for. And most of all, education gives usnot only the mental but also physical strength necessary to face any challenges of life with dignity.

An illiterate person simply gropes in the dark, leavingresult to chance or fate. He is ultimately dependent on others.Farmers in India, in olden times, who could not read or write,were cheated out of their land and willingly sufferedexploitation and injustice only because they had no education.They were deprived of their rights by unscrupulous landlords, moneylenders and middlemen who made them put their thumb impressions to false documents of possession. Women in India had been suppressed, dominated and ill-treated only because they had no education. But now with their having been educated to a certain extent, the old situation has started changing quit fast.

Now they have come out in the open to fight for their rights they are  now not dependent on others, nor do they silently submit to whatever cruelty is meted out to them.eduction liberates  a man's mind from wrong thinking, ignorance, superstitions and prejudices. It frees him from evil influence and vices. It equips him with knowledge and skill which would enable him to make a good living, culminating in his being an ideal citizen.

With the spread of education, gone are the days of bonded labou, economic slavery, pangs on account of being an  untouchable and being misled by black magic. Thus it can beboldly claimed that education has awakened the masses allover the world.