Education that does not foster civic consciousness among students is in all means an incomplete education, all the other skills and knowledge it fosters notwithstanding.

How right or wrong is this perception in your opinion?

Instilling civic consciousness needs to be the most important component of any education. That is what I feel about it, and I cannot but agree to the view that an education that does not do it is incomplete.

Education as such, in my opinion, is to make an individual lead a civilized, productive and meaningful life. If we look at the three conditions, ‘civilized’ comes first. In this context, being educated in some way is one thing and being civilized in its true sense of the term is just another. Here comes the role of civic consciousness. An educated person needs to have enough civic consciousness to be able to lead a civilized life. For example, switching a light off when not in use is a sign of civic consciousness; so is the case with keeping one’s surroundings clean.

On the other hand, if a stream of education happens to foster all other skills and knowledge, but fails to develop a sense of civic consciousness, what ever education that may be, it will be incomplete. For example, let us take the case of an educated person. She or she is not ready to behave well on a mass transport system or find it just alright to spit right on the road he or she walks on. What ever qualification such a person sports up his or her collar is absolutely incomplete.

To conclude it, it is right to say that civic consciousness is what makes a person lead a life worth living one with others. Being a social animal everyone needs to lay great stress on this factor while they get their children or themselves educated.

270 words