Education provides the foundation for learning

 

 

Education provides the foundation for learning. Without a basic education system comprising of schools with basic facilities and dedicated teachers, formal learning cannot take place. However, everyday learning through the daily activities we do is happening all the time.

 

From the day we are born, a baby learns to drink milk, roll his eyes, turn his head, stretch his arms, kick his legs and later on sit up, stand up and then start to walk before he learn to run, jump, skip and hop. Apart from the basic instincts that one is born with, everything else has to be learned at some stage of our lives. As such, it is an undisputable fact that learning is a life-long process and will only end when one stops breathing.

 

However, learning can take place in many ways. We can learn from people around us by imitating what they do, we can learn from the recorded experiences of our ancestors through books and from the teachings conducted in our schools.

 

To a lot of young children, the learning they undergo in school is largely through information and knowledge imparted by their teachers and those recorded on their textbooks. However, the speed and manner these knowledge are absorbed actually varies from individual to individual. Some simply memorise the facts and regurgitated them when tested while others may care to add a little reasoning to it to make the knowledge more convincing. This is what some of us referred to as 'critical thinking in education'.

 

If we take a broad-based look at learning and education, I really felt that it is a blessing for young children to be able to attend school and learn in a formal education system. As most countries take pains to build up a good education system for their people, the learning environment, curriculum and learning materials are all prepared specially for them in order to develop these young minds into useful assets who can contribute to the country when they grow up.

 

From the foundation laid down by the education system, young adults who graduated from their schools can then form their own learning traits and continue their learning journey for the rest of their lives!  As the saying goes: 'Give a man a fish to feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you can feed him for life'.

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