Advantages And Disadvantages Of Traditional Education

Traditional education focuses more on teaching than learning. In schools, students are made into memorise what teachers teach them, without knowing the relevance of the context in real work. Sadly this is still practiced in school. Knowledge is gained by the invention and exploring through the environment with patience, lots of observation and critical thinking. However, what we see now is filling empty vessels. Traditionally, teachers pass the knowledge they have to their students and children believed what teachers tell them. Here the teachers believe that they have the knowledge and treated themselves as subject of learning while treating students as an object of learning. I believe that this was practiced in Maldives few years back when

What we teach on class are easy to forget and sometimes not useful at all. Most of what we remembered is for a short period of time. When students are taught they should be taught on reasoning, discrimination, judgment imagination and intelligence. True knowledge consists in possessing ideas of universal validity and universal relevance. Knowledge acquisition should be a meant for individual development, civil efficiency, economic competency and focus on humanity and living a richer and a healthier life.

What we see in our life now a days is parents competing with other parents to make their children to be at the top. In order to achieve this students are forced to spend more time on studying than being on social life. Often we hear parents and other members of society complaining that their children don’t know anything outside the world except what’s being written on book. In Maldives children spent almost 6 hours of school every day in regular classes. After regular classes, they spend more time on extra classes and tuitions. What we see now is children starting from preschool to high secondary grades are dragged to tuition. This is evident not only from parents and students but from educational institutes too. Awards are given for the students as well as who achieved academic excellence. Therefore, schools along with parents and students work harder for a result based on

It also aims at promotion of democratic values which are necessary for the success of democracy. For a successful democracy, democratic cult and principles are necessary and children’s mind should be cultivated with democratic values. These values include democratic way of living, respect for dignity of other person, freedom, equal opportunity, justice and faith in tolerance along with peaceful methods and co- operative living.

Democracy means for the people by the people. In democracy every one is involved. Every child need to be trained and aware of about the importance of democracy and democratic form of life. Children need to know importance and duties of every citizen and why their vote is important. They are expected to know the concept of the government, the qualities of government and critically think about the independence of judiciary and responsibility of them as a citizen of the country. Success of a democracy lies on education of the citizen; therefore education plays a vital role in