Education and personality development

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Development means the gradual and continuous improvement of mind and body. In development process, it includes all those activities that help the individual to lead in the social life, to communicate social traditions, law, religious beliefs, and social institutions from one generation to other. The process of education encourages an individual to think, evaluate and act according to it. The results of education vary in different cultural groups and also in different individuals within one group, but whatever the aim and object, education always help to improve capability of individual and the group.

\Education is the process of educating or teaching. The purpose of education is to develop the knowledge, skills and character of students. According to Plato “education will have the greatest tendency to civilize and humanized them in their relation to one another and to those who are under their protection”. In ancient time education was interpreted in the sense of transmitting information to the student, while for modern educationist education means the process of development of the individual.
Personality it is physical, mental, emotional and social characteristics of an individual. It is the totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior that are peculiar to a specific person. The individual’s personality, character, thinking, commonsense, skills, habits depends upon education. Whatever acquired in human life is the result of formal, non-formal and informal education. Educational institutions, social, cultural and religious organizations must play important role in shaping the personality of younger generation.

Education helps us to acquire life skills, also known by soft skills which are necessary to sustain a successful life. Life skills includes problem solving, critical thinking, creative thinking, decision making, communication skills, interpersonal relationship skills, self-awareness, empathy, coping with stress, coping with emotions etc. Life skills are put to use in specific situations. Life skills can influence the way we feel about ourselves, and the way others perceive us. These skills help adolescent deal with demands and challenges for everyday life by developing the abilities relevant to everyday life, and promote and protect life, health and well-being, in risk situations.

Education is the secret of motivation. Motivation is the factors in individual which arouse, maintain and channel behavior toward a goal. We do certain things because of motivation. The student feels to learn for securing good marks in examination or for obtaining praise from others, and the good results leads to obtain a good/ high prestige job. Thus praise and prestige becomes motivation factors. By motivational factor it also makes individuals competitive and challenging.

Education gives power of positive thinking and self-confidence. Positive thinking allows a person to deal with difficulties successfully. They believe they are accountable for good things and that good things generally come in their way. If bad things accure then instead of being frustrated they believe things will better in future. They use their feedback and negative experience as self-enhancing manners.

Education gives creative and analytical thinking to a person that makes him different from uneducated person. It teaches us to analyze the things from all angles. By using this ability one can explore new ideas to deal with the situations. It allows humans to explore, invent and discover.

Education gives us awareness about our personal and political rights. It tells us how to get your rights and also how to give the rights to other. It absorbs the feeling of equality in our personality. It tells us to be good citizen, treat the women on equal level, give vote, and acquire your human rights that become the part of our personality.

The most important thing about education and personality is ‘CV’ (resume preparation). CV stands for curriculum vitae, means, “progress of life”. It includes your academic progress, your extracurricular activities, certificates etc. If you are looking for a job it’s quit important that how to offer yourself in a best way to an employer that may an educated person can do quit effectively.
We can see that how education influence the personality of individuals so effectively. As education varies from culture to culture and group to group, its effect also varies. But it is also fact that less or more, education has impact and most of the time it is positive.

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