Education

The Influence of Education on Nature   The Influence of Education on Nature Man has the big responsibility to take care of the world in which he is; however, he can also cause a lot of damages to it, while at the same time putting in danger the ones of his kind. In a city, we find people with a lot of different behaviors coming primarily from their parents. Being educated, he can learn how to change his attitude toward the society, how to cooperate with each other to protect it because education is not only the fact of going to school it includes a lot of things. According to the American psychologist, Edward Lee Thorndike from his book Education: A First Book (1912) “Education is the production and prevention of changes” (p2). Keeping what someone has good in him and preventing a degradation of his nature. That goes along with the idea of Jean Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher: Human are born basically good, they need to be protected from the corrupting influences of the society. That is mainly the point of education. Thorndike continues to say: ”A person is an educator in every act that changes any other man”. At that point, we can consider that education influences people’s nature in order to serve their economic needs, to protect his fellows and change the society. Education is the necessary the base of a society. Everything relies on it. As such, both education and society are a tightly bound entity that cannot be separate one from the other. A lack of education or its complete absence in a society would cause the inexistence of that society. For instance, children raised without education, even with preservation of skill and knowledge of nature, would act like animals, missing the educational influence of other men. They’d get sick easily and no longer speak any language. A child raised without education is no more than a monkey. That proves that the nature of someone cannot be his own guide. Child born to murderous father and mother should be a murderer if he grows up in this environment without education. Early on, a child should learn what can be useful to him. In young children the brain is developing very fast and getting ready for the child to learn; but, unless the child is exposed to the appropriate stimulation, that optimum opportunity for learning will be lost.  In language development, for example, the optimum time is between three and five years of age. Children, from a young age need to be exposed to a variety of positive experiences that stimulate all their senses.  Therefore, it is important to have educators, including parents, who are sensitive and responsive to the needs of the child. That means parents educating their children should also get a good education to aid development in a good way. The purpose of education resume at this point for someone to earn his living. Education makes people self sufficient, meaning that they can take care of their own problems and they are no longer at an animal stage. They know that they need it as they would need food and water to survive. So, they begin to see it as the food of the mind. Education helps a person meet his career objectives and achieve an economic growth. It builds a resourceful individual out of a raw human being. In addition, education contributes to the cultivation of a prudent person and earns the person satisfaction of having met his goals. An educated human being, having experienced the positive effects of education on his personality, is bound to encourage the idea of education and effectively, educate his children. One individual thus results in an educated family, taking education a long way along future generations. One of the beliefs about the purposes of education is that education aims at creating good teachers. While people earn from their work and for their own survival, they are also creating a way to protect others. That makes man feel like being a part of a group of people because human tends to be social. Education also fulfills a person’s dream and inspiration that he has. All the theories of education that someone learns tend to be practiced and used. He would use it for his own need but also for his surroundings. For example, a doctor cannot be his own doctor; an attorney needs another attorney to defend him. They relate to one another to survive. The most important is that men have to be taught to use things that they have worked on so they need people already formed for that job. Education is, indeed, a line of continuity. If we were working on building cities, factories, it wouldn’t be enough. All that construction would be no more than time lost. At the same time we would be working on its destruction. That is the reason that they place rules, rights, and obligations to respect. That would be the responsibility of educated people. They should be the head of groups and organizations, giving rules, keeping always in mind their interests. Plato, in The Republic, sees the ideal city as the one where the king would become a philosopher or the philosopher would be the king. There are also soldiers and guardians. They protect the citizen against themselves first and against others. That’s what the punishment is for: not obeying to a law.  As people have rights, they have obligations. They are expected to be followed. Education saves a society by preventing theft. Walter Beller Taboada a general Director of prevention emphasizes that point: “The best way to succeed in a crime prevention plan and curbing in antisocial behavior is to embark on an educational process to help people confront and resolve issues”. Furthermore, someone educated knows his rights and his responsibilities better than someone who is not educated. In Genetic Philosophy of Education Partridge, G. E. (George Everett) 1870 wrote: “It is the problem of education to develop the individual to precisely that stage of completeness at which he can most successfully live in the service of humanity and at the same time enjoy normal healthy life; and so to inspire the young with love for their humanity, and so to educate their instincts and ideals that, when the right of individuals and of the race comes into conflict, the right of the race shall always given precedence. ” Education has to do all that. It tends to have each individual serve and be proud of their community so it can be a better place and they can have a better have a better life. Education should come with changes. The goal of education should be to make man want the right thing and to make them able to control better their nature. By that, so many crises could be avoided: Jealousy, murder, theft and so one. Together, citizen can focus on the economical problem of a society to get a solution. A developed country is a country in which the majority of people is educated and know their responsibilities and what they what. According to many experts, to built economy we need better education. Obama, the actual president of the USA declared:”we are convinced we need to educate our way to a better economy”. Obama count on education a lot to change the economical situation. Yet, the goal of education wouldn’t be to eliminate completely the nature, but to use it in a wise way to have people cooperate with each other. Education changes the nature to influence the nurture in a good way. It changes the individual to next change the society in which he lives, giving him responsibilities to take care for his own well being and that of others. The subject has been discussed for a long time by many philosophers showing how important it is for everyone to be concerned about it. Having education leads one to serve his own interests and allows one to serve others and together change the society that will be full of good citizens.                                                         References         Rousseau, J. J. (1750). Discourse on the Sciences and Arts: Paris.     Partridge, G. E. (1912). A Genetic Philosophy of Education. New York: Sturgis & Walton                Company.     Thorndike, E. L. (1912). Education: A first Book. New York: McMillan.     Plato (1955). The Republic, London: Penguin ((translated by H. P. D. Lee).     Walter B. T. (1997). Trends in Organized Crime. Springer New York 4, 41-43.     doi:10.1007/BF02900337. Pickert, K. (2010, January 24). A complete and competitive education. New York Time , pp A4.