Meaningful Education The Last and Final Part!

Hello,

It is time to wind up this topic with these following words:

The Teacher must select the proper method of teaching i.e, weeding out

the unessential and helping the students to concentrate on

the main ideas of the subject. teaching should be a voyage

of discovery rather than imparting of information. The student should not be

treated as an empty vessel to be filled with facts, formulae and

theorems. The teacher should help him in grasping the basic

structure of the subject so that the student may be able to learn

by himself the latest developments in the subject. .He should

become a perennial student, carrying out the Holy Prophet's

(PBUH) command: Seek ye knowledge from the cradle to

the grave. This is the only way to meet the ominous challenge

of the explosion of knowledge, which is making the latest

knowledge obsolete within a decade. In the most profound

sense to be independent and to be original is to fulfil

oneself as a person. Each student is a unique bundle of potentialities.

The task of the teacher is to tap and release these potentialities.

The teacher must enthuse the student so that he stretches

himself to the maximum. Self-realisation means self-knowledge.

It should be the prime function of education to bring the

student to a knowledge of his own individuality. It is here that

one realises the profundity of Hadith, Nabvi: He who understands

himself understands God".Original thinking implies that

knowledge is not so much an explanation as an attempt to explain,

and hence the explanation is always tentative. The teacher is

always on his guard against dogmatism. All theories are

tentative. All theories are only guided to action. The moment

they are turned into dogmas, they become useless. If a student

is to cultivate a creative attitude towards his studies, he should

keep in mind the following.

1. What he knows is largely mediated through cultured categories.

It is largely through these categories that knowledge may be understood.

1. To many of these categories there exist alternatives within the culture.

2. To be true to himself, he should seek those categories

that correspond to his own experience of life.

1. He should strive to be open and flexible towards all that

he learns. He will never close his mind to fresh ideas, new values,

and novel dreams He should keep in mind what Iqbal

says:
A living heart is the creator of new ages and new worlds,

Through imitation, his soul loses illumination.

Thank you very much for reading my post.