A Study of Emotional Stability of Secondary School Students in Relation to Environmental Adjustment

Abstract

Education is the process of the acquisition of knowledge, values, skills, beliefs and habits. It is termed as transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to another. It may be understood as a course of study to acquire a body of knowledge or skills undertaken to enhance one’s ability to do a particular job and be able to earn money. The more generous definitions of education, where it is understood as development and refinement of one’s personality, without necessarily an eye to economic advantage, have been out of use for long, and one finds only scattered instances of the practice of education with such aims. In present context, education, in is perhaps the single most important means for individuals to improve personal endowments, build capability levels, overcome constraints and enlarge their available set of opportunities and choices for a sustained improvement in security and safety. It is not only a means to enhance human capital, productivity and, hence, the compensation to labour, but it is equally important for enabling the process of acquisition, assimilation and communication of information and knowledge, all of which augments a person’s quality of life. Education is significant not only as means to other ends, but it is an attribute that is valued in itself, by most individuals. More importantly, it is a critical invasive instrument for bringing about social, economic and political change and a durable integration of people, particularly those ‘excluded’, from mainstream of any society.