TECHNICAL EDUCATION

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate

themselves throughout their lives."
~ Robert M. Hutchins
The government has established an authority called TEVȚA,
which has set up many tecnical and vocational training
institutes to provide intensive training in various technical fields
such as civil,electrical, and electronics engineering. It also
imparts instruction and training in
so many fields of life. It trains and produces plumbers,
carpentcrs, TV technicians, steel fixers and and other skilled
workers.
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't
know." ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Modern civilization is dominated by science and scientific
development. As a result of its specialization in certain
branches,industrialization has become the most important
aspects of scientific development. It is because of this reason
that tcchnical education has been so much
in demand. In the earlier days, education was meant for the
intellectual development of man and in some cases for spiritual
culivation. The main purpose of education was to discipline our
emotions and discipline our thinking, and by doing so it made
us fit for a proper type of social life. With the passage of time,
education became broader in its embrace and more significant
in organizing the society. A number of politicians made use of
education for propagating their ideologies. For example, in
Russia and China of yesterday some of the sayings of individuals
were taught in the schools and colleges. The young minds were
stuffed with certain thoughts which suited their purpose. But
nowadays education is becoming more and more job-oriented.
That is why technical education is assuming greater importance.

Technical education makes us skilled so that we may be able to

handle the machines properly,It has already been pointed out
that technical education makes us specialists in certain domains
of life. There is a large number of jobs which cannot be properly
performed if technical knowledge is not acquired.
In a developing country like Pakistan, technical education is very
important. There is not possible arrangement for technical
education. That is why a large number of colleges cater to this
type of education. In this respect, one thing should be kept in
mind that arangement for absorbing
technical men be made. Moreover, industries should be set up
every year. But this process cannot go on for all times to come.
At one or the other stage they will have to reduce the number
of those= LO make industry the important basis of economy, as
we have envisaged, without making

who get technical education so that there may not be

unemployment among the technical people. It
is generally said that technical men can never remain
unemployed because they will have theis
own industries but it is truein theory only. In practice, it needs a
good market to sell the finishee
goods. It is not possible to provide these two things to all the
technical men.
In one of his essays entitled "Useless Knowledge", Russell tells
us that technical educatior
makes the people inhuman and purely objective. They look at
the problem purely from ue
technical point of view and their thinking becomes cold and
calculating. This is possibly one of tas
defccts of technical education. We should always try to have a
larger outlook, comprenersi
thinking and humanitarian approach. For all this there should
be liberal education also. echnic
education makes human beings machines but when it is
tampered with liberal education it becou
bu-
more wholesome and beneficial. Liberal education not only
makes us cultivate our affectioi
also develops our thinking. Apart from it, technical education
should be a part of training