#EssayFrameworkSeries |🎯140+| Framework #15
📌Essay Topic: Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in the schools(CSE 2023)
1) Introduction: An anecdote where an educated person did wrongdoing cleverly: Can use Satyam Scam or others, even Manhattan Project can be good start.
2) Education: what is it? Write your heart out.
3) Why education came into existence/The purpose? Also mention how education evolved.
4) What schooling/formal education gives: Curriculum, discipline, learning, curiosity, knowlege, values= responsible human being; Memory to character.
5) Knowlege(Memory) v character distinction: explain the distinction /differences among: Information, knowlege and character..SPECIFICALLY tell this: education's lasting value lies not merely in what the mind retains, but in what the person becomes. (#VeryImp=#GoodImpression)
6) Now address education is what remains.....ie human building/character building for shared peace, progress and prosperity: 50% wrightage here: Here address two parts:
Part A) Focus: when education succeeds in man making( as Vivekananda sai) or Character building: For examples Include all famous personalities/leaders who shaped and the world for the better: Bring in your favourite ones. #Remember to bring fresh perspectives on education
Part B) In this show when education fails to develop characters: Give well know examples here like Satyam scam Volkswagen emission scandel, Vyapam, Nuclear and biological bombs,
7) Why this tragedy? ie address why education fails/is failing in its purpose: Education as a tool to control, a means to earn, an instrument of consumption, a commerce instead of service; wrong focus: credenrialism, rote learning, education as control
8) Comtemporary paradox: Education losing its impprtance: Social media: earning by abusing(Big influencers who abusing got rewarded, crorepatis, celebrities, even TV and movies: wrong examples) #VeryVeryImp point(#differentiator)
9) what should remain after one has forgotten...crtitical thinking, respect, fairness and justice, emoathy, cooperation, civic sense, love for nature, tolerance, etc
10) Discourse enrichment: Acknowlege role of other agencies ie primary socialisation etc.
11) Suggestions: We dont need to reemphasize education's importance, we need to reclaim its purpise: ie making human beings not cogs in the wheels(#Marxian framework). This section deserves #due attention so address it well.
12) Conclusion: Bring in the topic in context of current challenges.
13) Finisher: Apt finisher is: "Education is not filling of the vessel but the kindling of a flame"
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1) 📚Content Enrichment:
🧠MustUsePhilosophersandThinkers: Aristotle | Plato | John Locke | Gandhiji | Rousseau |
💡MustUseConcepts: The Hidden Curriculum | Critical pedagogy |Phronesis | Credentialism | Moral Imagination
📍Examples to mention: Satyam scam Volkswagen emission scandel, Vyapam, Nuclear and biological bombs etc
2) #Mistakes that limit you to 80-100 range:
A) Surfacial deconstruction of the essay topic.
B) Not acknowleging the roles of other agencies like family, society, socio economic disabilities in value inculcation/character developmwmt etc
C) Failure to distinguish knowlege v wisdom/character as ultimate aim of education
D) Lack of Multidimensionality
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