Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Block - 1 : Introduction to Disciplines and
School Subjects
Unit - 5 : Importance of School Subjects
Unit Structure
1.5.1.
Learning Objectives
1.5.2.
Introduction
1.5.3.
Learning Points and Learning Activities
1.5.3.1. Importance of School Subjects in general
Check Your Progress-1
1.5.3.2. Importance of school subjects -Subject wise.
Check Your Progress-2
1.5.4.
Let us Summarize
1.5.5.
Answer to Check Your Progress - 1and 2
1.5.6.
Unit end Exercises
1.5.7.
References
1.5.1. Learning Objectives
After learning through this unit, the student teacher will be able to;
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Express that need for studying school subjects;
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Explain the objectives of school subjects;
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Explain the uses of school subjects in general; and
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Explain the importance of different school subjects.
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.