Does education means going to school?A group of people travelling on interstate coach. A professor claims that schooling is getting an education! A teacher in the group says she doesn’t agree because her mother didn’t go to university but she was the wisest person she knew. In the same crowd, there was a young auto-mechanic asked the professor, if someone who never attended school but who could build a house, repair machines, and employ other people, is that person uneducated? The professor insisted that education begins with school. A farmer seated nearby disagreed with the professor, and said that schooling begins at school but education begins at birth. He said before schooling was introduced, who taught farming, hunting, weaving, building houses, riding horses, governing kingdoms,a tribe or nation, midwifery, pottery and cooking. The professor intervened and said without school there is no education and said that knowledge outside classrooms aren’t real education. Suddenly, there was a system failure and the coach stopped. The young mechanic approached the engine but the professor told him to stay away as such complicated engine requires professionally qualified engineers. The whole group was stranded by the highway. The old farmer requested the young mechanic to look into the engine. Within a few minutes, the fault was fixed and the everyone was happy to continue their journey! The professor was amazed and asked the young mechanic where did he learned to fix such complex problems. He said that he learned from his father workshop and apprenticeship and years of experience without a university degree. Finally the professor agreed what the farmer said that schooling is one way of being educated but education itself is a lifelong process of acquiring knowledge, developing skills and character and solving problems. The finished by saying “young man today you became my teacher”! What are your thoughts on the above passage?

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