TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Outline:
- Technical education is to be distinguished from a liberal education.
- Systematic technical education is a growth of modern times. It has replaced the ‘pathetic system’.
- In the present industrial era, technical education is a prime necessity. Technical education has raised the status of manual labour in our eyes.
- In Pakistan particularly, technical education should be encouraged and developed.
Technical education differs from an ordinary academic
education. The aim of ordinary of liberal education as it is called, is to
train the mind and develop the intellect for its own sake. Technical education,
on the contrary, aims at teaching to the students some trade or handcraft and
giving them training in a particular branch of industry. Technical education,
has therefore, a practical, useful end. A literary and nourish the artistic
side of man but suits a particular type of temperament and not the masses.
Technical education has a utilitarian motive behind it as its object is to enable
us our won livelihood but also become useful members of society form the
economic point of view.
A
rough, crude form of technical education has always existed in the past. A
carpenter, a blacksmith, an architect, etc. would take apprentices who tried to
learn their work by constant observations and practice buy with the
introduction of machinery onto industry and other changes in the life of
people, technical education had to be given along more scientific lines. The result
is that technical institutions exist in every country of the world and give
training to thousands of young men every year. Electrical engineering, mechanical
engineering, training in Public Works, and scores of allied branches of human
industry fall within the scope of technical education. A high degree of skill
has to be developed by the students. Accuracy, precision, neatness, quickness, manual
dexterity, powers of endurance these are the qualities that the technical expert
must acquire while taking his course of technical education. To a man having no
technical knowledge, a modern factory would present a most perplexing sight
because of the elaborate, complicated machinery that is employed for the purpose
of manufacture of all our requirements. But a skilled and trained worker finds
himself perfectly at home in such a factory and understands his duties well as
the result of his technical training.
We
live in a scientific, industrial age. Technical education is a necessity of our
times. Without it, the whole industrial system would come to a standstill. It is,
therefore, the very foundation of industrial progress and development. It is
the paramount duty of every country to see that a scientific number of its
people undergo the necessary technical training for copying the essential work
that awaits them in factories. A purely literary education should be reserved
for the minority who have a natural aptitude for it and who show some promise
to that direction. But in an era of science and industry, the majority of people
should be given technical training. We no
longer think it undignified to do manual labour. Technical education has given
to manual labour a high status in the present day world.
The
case of Pakistan deserves special education attention. Pakistan is backward
country from the industrial point of view. No doubt many industries have been
started here a great deal remains yet to be done. We look forward to an era of industrial
development in this country. The starting of industries here should be accompanied
by the opening of technical institutes. There are number of such institutes
even now but the number is too small, particularly the number of Government technical institutes. Nowadays most
students go up for a University which makes only clerks of them. This is not
desirable. Indiscriminate admissions to colleges should be stopped because
Pakistan needs an army of skilled and trained workers. The government is
sending large number of students abroad for technical training. This is a step
in right direction but more technical schools in our own country are need of
the honor, because future lies with industry. The problem of finace is undoubtedly
a thorny one but Government support would be able to solve this problem very easily.
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