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Jainism, Art and Education-an overture
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covers the range of education. It does not end at the confinement to instructions imparted in educational institutions nor a inere intellectual development of a person. It is a life-long process, individual as well as social. It is a dynamic process. It provides opportunities for the flowering of human personality, manifestation of the qualities that are inherent in a person. It marks a propulsion from internal to the external and vice versa in the attainment of deep-level traits, a creative orientation ultimately to overcome self-sense and egoism. A man becomes a man because of proper education. Abreacting the beast in man and elevating the best in him are education's end-product. Education is thus a man-making process.
Education is a kind of faith in action, a discipline that combines different disciplines supporting it. The concepts and theories are all behind it. It is knowing and cultivating that’, its content. It is an enterprise. Knowing 'how', its method or combination of methods is its natural extension. It conveys accepted excellences, the cultivation of which is desirable, appreciable and morally justifiable. It is worth getable. To be aware of it is a natural and linear grain. The knowledge of the educator and the extent of gain to the educated are all included in it. This is why; education is both constitutively and epistemically proactive, prospective, performative and perfective. On the constitutive level, it is existent definiens and exists independently. Whether one knows these traits, exalts them, cultivates them or does not cede them, they do exist in it. Knowing them has inherent propensity. It is propellant and propitious in nature that peps up person/persons for its dissemination. It also proffers to win weal of decline and deceleration of value/values in which it seems losing its weight.
Education displays knowledge and many things more like expression-level quality of culture and learning, the level of quality acquired, developed level of special and general abilities of minds and, refined and promoted mode of thought and feelings through learning and experiences ultimately to put on display the positive
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