THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

 On a global basic,  no statistics are adequate  to suggest the magnitude  of the revolution in education  today. In the united state information service libraries  in the third world  about thirty million people annually  use the facilities  provided. The agency distributes eight million books every year. The soviet union  also distribute over  one hundred  and fifty million books  to developing countries all over the world. But together this programs so not come near to meeting the world demand.

 More fact and figure cannot  convey  the human passion  for learning.  In the English   speaking teaching programs  mounted  for children  in latin – American countries.  Children have been known to have sold  the shoes off  their feet to pay  their way to class  because there were no more chairs.  The next day, he and  a contingent  of his fellow chiefs  were waiting  outside the door, each caring  his own chair. This limitation is not  limited to  the developing world. In the united state  there are  more than  fifty million  student attending  more than 185,000 public and private schools at all levels. There are more student  in the united state  than there were city  resident only  forty years ago.  We have enter an age in which  education is not just  a luxury  which give some men an advantage  over others  it has become a necessity without  which a person  is defenseless  in this  complex  industrialization society.  Levels of education which  were once awe  have now  become common place. And jobs which ones could be filled with possession of strength  and native intelligent  now call for a collage degree. We have truly entered the century of educated man

It is a mistake, however, to confuse  skill with education. A man  who has been taught  only to hold a job has not been educated;  he has only been trained.  And  the man who has merely been trained is not fully   qualified  to take his place  in a free society  as a fully participating citizen. And all round education should equip  the learner  for any challenges  he may encounter

Education  of course  is not  something that is  acquired just in collage. It is  a life  long  task  and  when I  think of death, I think of it as the  moment  when the brain cease to  inquire  and expand.