The Influence of Education on Nature

The Influence of Education on Nature

Man has the big responsibility to take care of the world in which he is; however, he can also cause a lot of damages to it, while at the same time putting in danger the ones of his kind. In a city, we find people with a lot of different behaviors coming primarily from their parents. Being educated, he can learn how to change his attitude toward the society, how to cooperate with each other to protect it because education is not only the fact of going to school it includes a lot of things. According to the American psychologist, Edward Lee Thorndike from his book Education: A First Book (1912) “Education is the production and prevention of changes” (p2). Keeping what someone has good in him and preventing a degradation of his nature. That goes along with the idea of Jean Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher: Human are born basically good, they need to be protected from the corrupting influences of the society. That is mainly the point of education. Thorndike continues to say: ”A person is an educator in every act that changes any other man”. At that point, we can consider that education influences people’s nature in order to serve their economic needs, to protect his fellows and change the society.

Education is the necessary the base of a society. Everything relies on it. As such, both education and society are a tightly bound entity that cannot be separate one from the other. A lack of education or its complete absence in a society would cause the inexistence of that society. For instance, children raised without education, even with preservation of skill and knowledge of nature, would act like animals, missing the educational influence of other men. They’d get sick easily and no longer speak any language. A child raised without education is no more than a monkey. That proves that the nature of someone cannot be his own guide. Child born to murderous father and mother should be