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03Nov 2018 by admin

Short Biography of Herbert Spencer

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Short Biography of Herbert Spencer – Herbert Spencer [1820-1903] was a prominent British social thinker of the 19th century. He is often called “the second founding father of sociology”. He is known to the world as a great social philosopher, a famous evolutionist, a strong defender of individualism and a prolific writer. It is said that Spencer undertook to create what Comte envisaged to do. He made sociology an all encompassing science.Spencer who is considered one of the most brilliant intellects of modern times was a British engineer and an editor, a philosopher and a sociologist. Spencer was a self- taught man and hence his learning was highly selective.Spencer was born on April 27, 1820, in Derby in England in a middle-class family. He was the oldest of the nine…

03Nov 2018 by admin

Short Biography of Emile Durkheim

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Short Biography of Emile Durkheim – Emile Durkheim [1858-1917] was the most prominent French sociologist of the 19th century. He was an erudite scholar, a deep thinker, a progressive educationist, an effective writer and a strict disciplinarian.Unlike Spencer, Durkheim acknowledged Comte as his master. He borrowed from Comte the positivistic stress on empiricism. But he went far ahead of Comte to establish sociology as an empirical science. He insisted that sociology too should follow the scientific method for it to be considered a science.Durkheim was born in a Jewish family at Epinal in the eastern French province of Lorraine on 15th April, 1858. He studied Hebrew language, the Old Testament, and the Talmud at an early age. In spite of this background he remained an agnostic throughout his life. Image…

03Nov 2018 by admin

Short Biography of Auguste Comte

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Short Biography of Auguste Comte – Auguste Comte [1798-1857] was a great French thinker, a famous social philosopher and the first sociologist. It was he who laid the foundations of sociology and is acclaimed as the “father of sociology”. He insisted that the science of society, that is, sociology, should be treated on par with other sciences. Sociology has gone far ahead in the scientific tradition about which Comte had insisted. The community of sociologists remains ever grateful to Comte for his pioneering works to make sociology a science.Comte was born at Montpellier, France, on 19th Jan. 1798, a decade after the French Revolution. His parents were very humble, law-abiding and highly religious. His father was a government servant and a royalist and a traditionalist.From the very beginning, Comte exhibited…

02Nov 2018 by admin

Essay on the Important Functions of Culture

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Essay on the Important Functions of Culture – Man is not only a social animal but also a cultural being. Man’s social life has been made possible because of culture. Culture is something that has elevated him from the level of animal to the heights of man.Man cannot survive as man without culture. It represents the entire achievements of mankind. Culture has been fulfilling a number of functions among which the following may be noted. ADVERTISEMENTS: 1. Culture is the Treasury of Knowledge:Culture provides knowledge which is essential for the physical, social and intellectual existence of man. Birds and animals behave instinctively. With the help of instincts they try to adapt themselves with the environment. But man has greater intelligence and learning capacity. Image Source: colourbox.comWith the help of these…

31Oct 2018 by admin

Imaginative Essay on “If I become Education Minister”

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If by some miracle I became the minister of education I would bring many changes in the education system of India.The first reform that I would bring about would be the abolishing of the examination system. At the end of every lesson that we study in class we have a test and at the end of a term we have to take an exam. Examinations are nothing but a test of our memories.A child who is good at memorizing notes can easily score well at the exam. It is not absolutely necessary that he may have understood all that he read. That proves the futility of exams. ADVERTISEMENTS: The course should be read by students in such a way that they can really understand what they read and there can…

31Oct 2018 by admin

Essay for Students on the Importance of Adult Education

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In India, education has been provided to a few fortunate people and this has widened the gap between a few literate and millions of illiterate people in India. Since the population of the country is so large, it has been a very difficult task to educate all the people of India. It has been estimated that by 2008 AD, 28% of the world’s illiterate people will be found in India alone. There are still about 45,000 villages in India that do not have a primary school.Adult education has now become a great necessity in India. It is obvious that an adult will be interested in studying only that which can help him with his occupation. He won’t be interested in learning from scratch and that too all those subjects that…

31Oct 2018 by admin

Short Article on Female Education

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Napoleon was once asked, what the great need of France was. He answered,” Nation’s progress is impossible without trained and educated mothers.If the women of my country are not educated, about half of the people will be ignorant.”A woman has to play three roles in the course of her life. Each of these roles expects some duties from her. ADVERTISEMENTS: It is only with the help of education that she would be able to do them successfully. The first duty of a woman is to be a good daughter.The second duty is to be a good wife and third duty is to be a good mother. Education teaches a woman what she should be. It also teaches her how she should do it to be good daughter, a good wife…

30Oct 2018 by admin

Short Essay for Kids on Lala Lajpat Rai

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Lala Lajpat Rai was born in a small village in 1865. He had a taste for literature as well as politics.Lala Lajpat Rai ‘The Punjab Kesari’ or ‘The Lion of Punjab’ was a great fighter for freedom. Though he was not born great but he achieved greatness by dint of patriotism.He started his career as a lawyer. He joined the freedom movement after giving up his practice under the influence of Gandhiji. ADVERTISEMENTS: He was a great social reformer and firm believer of the mission of Arya Samaj. He served for the cause of education and upliftment of the untouchables and education amongst women.He was the founder of several educational institutions. He was a great orator. His book “Unhappy India” showed his power of pen. Image Source: ecx.images-amazon.comHe was a…

29Oct 2018 by admin

463 Word Short Essay about the Teacher I Admire

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The relation between the teacher and the student is a strange one. They can neither become familiar with each other nor can they remain strangers. There is unconscious fear of the teacher in mind. Similarly the teacher always look upon his pupils as students.The teacher gives a long lecture on morality and the students listen to it patiently. One dictates and the other obeys. But my attitude towards the teachers has always been different. Unfortunately, I do not like the teachers who are all the time teaching and preaching morals.I like my English teacher Mr. Rajan because he takes us away from the subject. He does not confine himself to the text books or to only the lectures. He often tells us something which happens around the world. d93schools.org ADVERTISEMENTS:…

28Oct 2018 by admin

What are the Aims and Objectives of Education in India?

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Aims and objectives of education in India are given below:(a) As per the National Policy on Education (1968), the aim of education is “to promote national progress, a sense of common citizenship and culture and to strengthen national integration”.It laid stress on “the need for a radical reconstruction of the educational system to improve its quality at all stages, and give much greater attention to science and technology, the cultivation of moral values and a closer relationship between education and the life of the people.” ADVERTISEMENTS: (b) The National Policy on Education (1986) reinforced these aims to state that education should further the goals of socialism, secularism and democracy enshrined in the Constitution of India.(c) Education should strive to promote values such as India’s common cultural heritage, egalitarianism, democracy and…