A Situation we are faced with in the event of being educated - an analogy

In the act of understanding the dynamics of education, i am faced with a situation. This in turn forced me to conceive education as an ‘image recorder’. The process of education is within the treasuries of the human mind, heart and soul.  The image that is often captured by the camera can be ‘actions’ or ‘reactions’. This takes place because of the external stimuli, i.e. the photographer being an extern, perhaps an unknown, unfamiliar face to the students who are being captured. He clicks the photos according to his intentions. The students are caught unawares in the particular situation they are faced with.  In the case of taking a photograph you can see many students, actually shying away from the photo being clicked or rather trying to adjust to the situation. This is the action that happens at the ‘click’. In education what happens at the click of an ‘insight’. It spurs one into action. The action can be active in the sense of adjusting to a situation. Here the adjustment is automatic and to a certain extent forced. One wants to move away from the photo being clicked and at the same time one can’t really move away but be a part of it while the image being caught by the camera. Hence, it makes you active automatically in adjusting to the situation no matter how it influences you. But one is acted upon by imposition of the intention of the intended. Here the case being the intention of the photographer.

The finger that clicks is the active mind ready to capture what is intended. Now the process of recording the particular image is an internal function. By this can we deny the other sources of knowledge as understood by educators, for example the empiricists who stressed on the sense knowledge, the rationalists who stressed on reason and mind. But now we are faced with a situation in which the educand or the educator find difficult to identify the internal happenings present to both in the process of education. The others around the educand may be initially seen as strangers living in anonymity. In the beginning when the child steps into the school, his whole experience will be that of strangeness mingled with newness (here what I have in mind is not the internal happenings of the child but the external happenings). But there is a whole process of influence and being influenced mutually. On the other hand one cannot neglect the fact that wherever one goes, one cannot ignore the people.

Now there is another dimension to it i.e. adjustment. The photographer adjusts his camera according to the right image he wants to capture (the adult world of imposition). Among the students the adjustment is both comfortable and uncomfortable to the extent of the situation and the context of the whole education support system they find themselves in. Now it is important to consider the support system in which one finds oneself in.