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Dawoodbhai Ghanchi
Synergistic Role of Education in India of the 21st Century
Nature of Education : Education is a transformative process that is designed to bring about desired change in the personality and behavior of the educand, namely the learner who passes through the process, which may happen with or without the intervention of the educator, i. e. the teacher. The change would be in proportion to the deliberate, measured inputs provided during the process by the enabler, namely the educator comprising a human agent or a system or an agency like the physical, technological, or socio-cultural infrastructure. In fact, over centuries, education has developed into a complex, multifactor process. It is no longer a simple linear process, entirely controlled by a human teacher passing on bits of information to the recipient learner.
In the modern context, therefore, education as a process functions at multiple levels trying to bring about change in the multifaceted personality of the learner through the operation of multiple factors, forces, tools etc. And so education has become an elaborate, comprehensive endeavour aimed at changing the personality of the learner for better. It is intensively laboured, it being a labour intensive activity, is meticulously planned and almost superdesigned. After all, modern education is tremendously influenced and shaped by the contemporary world scenario which itself is a conglomerate of diverse forces like politics, socio-cultural life styles, economy,
