The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education -- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-19681 .The definition of education in our current day is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. Learning or the improvement of one's knowledge changed over years. What was taught centuries ago or the way information was being taught is very different from our present days. Is today's education affecting children/teens/adults' brains in a negative way? Education is an intricate process of teaching right morals and ethics, alongside variable information needed for our survival in the contemporary world. It can be bestowed in so many different ways but so far we've only used a couple.
Is there a right way for applying education? Education isn't something you learn just from school, as Albert Einstein said; education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Unlike how our parents look at school as if it's the key for education when in fact education is found in the corners of our daily lives and not just within 4 walls of a room. Formal education extends to more than half of our lives and the way it is delivered can have a vital effect on our generations' human personalities.
Our educational system in today’s era is quite cruel, and it’s affecting children and teens in a mentally detrimental way. The reasons behind this negative effect could be those of inferiority and failure because of the lack of preparation for the real world, or success in school fooling us to thinking it is all systematic and that that will guarantee an easy adult life, but then getting all confused when thrown into the real world. Plato claims, "a young thing can't judge what is hidden sense and what is not, but what he takes into his opinions at that age has a tendency to become hard to eradicate and unchangeable". Indeed, once a child believes in something he/she might become so stubborn about it, but what about their teenage phase? Don't we change a lot in the way we process and perceive things during our teenage years? How do you think great philosophers' education was like? What would they think of today's educational system? For instance, Plato knew the power of education firsthand because he himself was a teacher and he later realized that their educational system is one of many possible educational systems. The role of education in society in accordance to Plato and Aristotle is for one to want to always learn more, improving their intellect, to look at education as the backbone of a fulfilled self, and therefore learning about what the meaning of life really is, leaving behind the materialistic world.