Education Key To Democratic Citizenship

Education plainly means the grasp of self-worth. It enables individuals to use freedom, not determined by luck, ignorance or circumstance. Quality education helps to shape attitude, disposition and values (intrinsic and instrumental) and lifts them above deceit and distortion. Democratic education is value-based. It seeks the harmony of ends and means and cultivates moral virtues, not militant culture or trade of acrimonies slighting civility. It thus brings private individuals into the public sphere of citizenship and makes them responsible. Obviously, disposition is allied with their ethics to act decently without being habit-driven which involves impulsive acts without much thought and care.