Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

1.5.2 Introduction
It is education that raises us up above the other animals, the other creatures that crawl
the earth; and it is the very breadth of education that empowers us. If we merely regard
learning, studying, as the means to secure a certain institution accredited accolade, then we
may have acquired some knowledge, but little humanity.
A good, broad education is an asset for a lifetime: it is not just a key to open the doors
of various professions, but a social resource, enabling you to mix with many people. The
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world itself is a more interesting place to the educated person. Where the uninitiated will
just see the rocks and the sea, the learned will notice the wave cut platform, and the variegated
influence of erosion on different stone formations. Education changes our eyes, lets us see
things differently. A narrow education, merely serving ones chosen profession, narrows the
very world. We should strive to be polymaths, studying a whole range of subjects! Schooling
helps to achieve our goal of changing for good, to become human, to think differently than
others. This will not help in vacuum. The learning of different subjects prepares us for
different tasks. Let us understand in this unit, the importance and uses of studying different
school subjects.