13/09/2022
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION?
What is compulsory education and its purpose? Education is the best source to bring change to the world. Nothing can transform a person’s life like education. Inspire confidence and give people a voice. In addition to its obvious benefits for a fuller and better life. Education can contribute to the betterment of society as a whole. It can build a society in which people are aware of their rights and duties.
We think that education should influence the integral development of the person. And for this, as we pointed out in the report “Education at the center”. It is necessary to overcome more instrumental or economistic conceptions of education.
A report was made as proposal based on the four pillars of learning. Learning to learn, learning to do, learning to be, and learning to live together. Also it offered a basis for the debate on which choices should be made and perform in policy formulation.
These pillars must be understood as a whole and not as individual components aimed at feeding different educational strategies. It would not be appropriate. For example, to develop cognitive competencies disconnected from the ethical and social values that guide the construction of more just societies.
This vision is closely aligned with the moral and intellectual principles that support the idea of education as freedom. Who, in her model of education for democratic citizenship, points out three essential capacities that should be acquired through education. Thought critical ability to critically examine one’s self and one’s traditions.
Also global citizenship, the ability not only to perceive themselves as citizens of some local sphere but also as human beings united to others by bonds of recognition and correspondence. And creative understanding, thinking about what it might be like to be in a different person’s shoes.
In today’s world, these approaches are still fully valid. Societies face intractable questions about the future and sustainability of the planet. The innovative responses that individuals or groups can give to these changes and challenges. It will depend in part on their knowledge and capacities to understand the problems they face and to propose and implement lasting solutions from the recognition of common destiny. Also the commitment to social justice. Education plays a central role in this process.
Strengthening in the children, youth, and adults of today and tomorrow this sense of belonging to a global community, of shared citizenship, willingness to assume collective responsibilities to address the complexities and controversies of a common destiny, should constitute the most relevant purpose of The education.
