prepares every child to become an active member of the community and work for its welfare.
Education, is believed, releases our potentials and our inner strengths. It sharpens our intellect and develops our creativity. As we are taught to reason well and find solutions to the problems of life we become productive members of society. Education by definition is progressive and liberal, teaching us to respect human diversity and cultural and religious differences. If all of us practise these values in life, the world becomes a much happier place.
Education also fosters critical thinking and provides us a set of competencies including life skills that enable us to become competitive even in the most challenging of circumstances. Education also teaches us to appreciate beauty and the bounties of nature.
School, however, is not the only place where a child gets education. A Bangla poem tells us that nature can be our best teacher. Here are a couple of lines from the poem in English translation : The sky has taught me to be liberal.
The wind has given me the motto to be industrious.
If we can make nature our friend, philosopher and guide, we can learn lessons about life that, combined with what our schools teach us, will prepare us for the future.
Choose the best answer from alternatives.
(a) Education provides us with the qualities-
(i) To make us thoughtful (ii) to make our life meaningful by taking wise decisions (iii) to be sociable and fashionable (iv) to occupy a powerful position in a country
(b) The word ‘personality’ mentioned in the passage means
(i) Celebrity (ii) fame (iii) pride (iv) individuality
(c) 'To decide things rationally' means ______.
(i) To judge things reasonably and take wise decisions (ii) to take rational attitude to our social and national life (iii) to develop good debating power (iv) to judge things independently
(d) The phrase ‘pick up’ mentioned in the passage means
(i) acquire (ii) leave (iii) succeed (iv) hover
(e) What is the purpose of the author of this passage?
(i) To explain the functions of education in our life (ii) to show how to be educated (iii) to show the positive and negative aspects of education (iv) to show how nature can be our teacher and philosopher
(f) We need to connect lessons about our life from nature with-
(i) institutional education (ii) family education (iii) Family values (iv) none of the above
(g) After discussing awareness of ourselves, what does the text say education releases?
(i) our habits (ii) our potential (iii) our possessions (iv) none of the above
(h) Education teaches us to
(i) Criticize (ii) in appreciate (iii) appreciate (iv) hurt
(i) The word 'appreciate' in 'appreciate beauty' means ______.
(i) ignore (ii) recognise the value of (iii) damage (iv) reject
(j) One of the main objectives of education is to teach us how to- human diversities and cultural and religious differences.
(i) Develop (ii) maintain (iii) respect (iv) hate
(a) (ii) to make our life meaningful by taking wise decisions
(b) (iv) individuality
(c) (i) To judge things reasonably and take wise decisions
(d) (i) acquire
(e) (i) To explain the functions of education in our life
(f) (i) institutional education
(g) (ii) our potential
(h) (iii) appreciate
(i) (ii) recognise the value of
(j) (iii) respect