Becoming a Responsible Citizen: Can Education Help?

 Every citizen has duties and responsibilities which they have to fulfill in a suitable manner. 

Education builds the character of a citizen. Education doesn’t mean just to study course books but its actual meaning is to understand the lessons of the book. Education should not be considered complete until it is practiced. So besides studying and understanding, applying the lessons of books in our daily life is very important. 

Education is very important in making a responsible citizen. Education is helpful in many ways. An educated person knows about his responsibilities and rights well. 

As we are students, we know how education helps in becoming a good and responsible citizen. Only a educated person is able to eliminate social crimes such as firing at different festivals etc. education helps the citizens to select an able candidate who will put the nation on the right path. 

With the help of education we know that cleanliness is very important for the health of people. An illiterate person doesn’t know the importance of cleanliness. Only an education person will know it is our responsibility as a citizen to keep our country and city clean. 

As it is said: “White paper and youth can take any colour”. 

Therefore we should educate our youth in the right manner. Only then they will thus be able to become responsible citizens. We should also keep in mind that men and women should be educated equally. As it is said: 

“Women hold up half of the sky at the same height as men”. 

Thus, education should be imparted equally to men and women to develop a healthy society as they take equal part in the progress of the country. 

Common Sense Development Through Education

In societies like ours, whenever we talk about education, most often we talk about the “lack of education”. 

However, I think the problem is two fold; firstly most of our population does not have access to education. For the few of us who do, the education we receive cannot be graded as quality education. 

The point that I want to make is that our education lacks the quality of common sense development and by common sense I mean the sense about: 

1. One’s environment
2. Population
3. Human rights, especially rights of women and children
4. Health and hygiene, etc 

Another important thing which I wanted to mention in context to common sense development is the ability of a student to open his mind and discuss his own views about any topic. Also he should have the capacity to accommodate another person’s views. This can play a very important role in bringing people together and sharing world peace (which the world is in dire need today) for the common good of humanity.