Unit-2, Lesson-3
Read the passage and answer question B.
Aim of education is to bring positive changes in our behavior. It helps us try to change our lives as well as the society we live in. Education that does not illuminate our minds or does not inspire us to work for the community is not complete at all. Education is not all about getting grades or receiving certificates— we use education to make life better. We are expected to apply the knowledge, skills and values that we learn in a classroom in our engagement with the world that lies outside. And we can do so in many different ways. Let’s have a look at how education works.
Learners civic engagement is highly appreciated all over the world. Civic engagement means working to make a difference in civic life (the public life of the citizens as contrasted with private or personal life) of the community using knowledge, skills, values and motivation. Civic engagement promotes the quality of life in a community by contributing to the improvement of health and wellbeing of the people.
B. Answer the following questions.
(a) What is the function of civic engagement? How does it do so?
Ans: The function of civic engagement is to promote the quality of life in a community. Civic engagement does so contributing to the improvement of health and wellbeing of the people.
(b) How can education become complete?
Ans: Education can become complete if it can do at least two things: the first one is that it can illuminate our minds, and the second one is that it can inspire us to work for our community.
(c) What can education be concerned with?
Ans: Education can be concerned with getting grades and receiving certificates. Moreover, it can be used in respect of improving our life.
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(d) Where do we get knowledge, skills and values? What are we expected to do with them?
Ans: We get knowledge, skills and values in the class rooms of educational institutions. We are expected to apply them in our interactions with the world that lies outside the society.
(e) What is the aim of education? How can it be useful?
Ans: The aim of education is to bring positive changes in our behavior. It can be useful when we can have help from it in respect of our trying to change our lives as well as the society we live in.
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