EDUCATION IN CAMBODIA
1 What is the purpose of education ?
2 How can education prepare you for your future ?
Education is very important in every country, because without it a country cannot develop. This is because countries are made up of people, and education aims to help them develop as capable individuals and responsible members of society.
Every country is different, however, so every country, including our own, has the task of working out an educational system that is suitable for its own purposes. Various approaches can be taken, but here we will approach this task in two ways. Firstly, our pupils need sufficient knowledge about themselves and their environment to satisfy their needs and wishes. Secondly, they need to develop those skills that are necessary for their development. These include such practical tasks as reading, writing, knowing how to obtain and use knowledge, solving problems of various degrees of complexity and working or playing with other people in a spirit of friendly cooperation. Unless our pupils have learned how to carry out these tasks, they won't have developed those skills that are necessary for their own and their country's development in the future.
When pupils become teenagers and students, their interests and needs change and develop. They need to develop all their faculties further by learning to think for themselves, share their ideas with other people, express themselves clearly, and accept ideas that are different from their own. In short, they must develop their capacity as individuals, while at the same time recognising their obligations to society.
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