Topic: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Education has a great social importance especially in the modern, complex industrialized societies. However society is today being faced with social problems that partly due to the lack of standards in character education as Aristotle said that: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Education without interest will cause social problems. Education in mind is studying without enthusiasm, learner only absorb scientific knowledge and get nothing. Which is source partly of the current troubles of the world economy, the harmful effects of global climate change, the occurrence of natural disasters and epidemic illnesses, and the persistence of acts of violence by individuals and groups, the world in which we find ourselves can seem like a ticking time bomb, moments away from exploding. That is the clear evident on the lack of conscious awareness. We only learn scientific knowledge meaning ourselves in an uncomfortable position of balancing thoughts, feelings, and actions over which we can acknowledge some conscious control, and mental, emotional, and behavioral habits. In short, education only the mind the same a body lack of soul.
Education with strong sense is the best way to measure someone. Even though stem is all the rave, a well-rounded person is one who not only can add, subtract, multiply, and divide, but also knows how to think, when to think, and why one is thinking. Having focused a lot of my learning to the social sciences I recognized as Plato said that “the object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful” and the social sciences allow those who study them to better understand the life in which we exist, not just live. A worthwhile education should target the total development of learner’s personality. but in the present system emphasis has given to transmission of knowledge and cultivation of occupational...