Answer the following questions:

(a) Is there any relationship between education and the development of one's personality? Substantiate your answer.

(b) How does education make one productive?

(c) "Education by definition is progressive and liberal"- Explain this statement in your own words.

(d) Can education make one competitive? Why/Why not?

(e) Do you think that a child gets education only from schools? What is the significance of learning from nature?

(a.) Yes, there is a relationship between education and the development of one's personality. Education, contributes to the development of our personality by giving us an awareness about ourselves. It prepares every child at school to become an active member of the community by giving them consciousness, about themselves and thus develops their personality.

(b.) Education makes a person productive by teaching him the reasons of problems of life well and helping him find solutions to them. In addition, education to release one's potentials and his inner strengths and by sharpening his intellect and developing his creativity makes him a useful member of a nation as well as a society.

(c.) By definition, education possesses progressive and liberal values of how to respect human diversity and cultural and religious differences. By practicing these values in life, we can make the world a happier place.

(d.) Yes, education can make one competitive even in the most challenging circumstances by helpingthim/her in critical thinking and providing him/her a set of competencies including life skills. Education also teaches one to appraise beauty and the grace of nature, which are also essential ingrediants to make one competitive.

(e.) No, school is not the only source of education. Rather, children also get education from nature, natural beauty and bounties of nature. Nature is their best teacher. According to a Bangla poem, the sky teaches us to be liberal and the wind teaches us to be industrious.