Impact of Formal Education on Society and Environment: A Study on Pabna Sadar Upazila.

Abstract

Education is one of the most important forms of human capital investment. It is the basic need for socio-economic transformation and advancement of a country. No nation can prosper without education. It is also the prime ingredient of human resource development (Fifth Five Year Plan 2002). Education helps a man to understand what is right and what is wrong. It creates consciousness and develops awareness. It broadens out look, removes prejudice which are obstacle to social and spiritual development of human beings. The main purpose of education is to acquire knowledge. Knowledge removes the darkness. An educated man is an asset while an illiterate man is a liability to the society. In Bangladesh, educational development is not adequately enough to meet the needs and challenges of the time. Education can be imparted through formal or informal ways. Many people of our country are deprived of having basic education from formal institutions. Bangladesh government and various NGOs have taken different steps to enhance literacy rate through formal and non-formal education programs. The present study has been designed to study the impact of formal education on society and environment. What sorts of changes have been brought in our society and what changes are being observed in our socio-economic environment through formal education were the subject matter of the present study.