Female Education
Female education is
very essential for the overall development of a nation. More or less half of
the population of a country is female. Leaving the female uneducated and
unemployed, no nation can prosper. That’s why female education has been a
crying need of the day. Once women were confined within the four walls of the
house and were used to doing only household chores. At that time, they were
deprived of the light of education because of the prejudice, unconsciousness,
superstition, social backwardness, prejudiced outlook, social barrier, obstacle
by the fundamentalists and so on. But now it has changed a lot and women are
getting educated gradually. But most of the women are lagging far behind in
education. The rate of female literacy is alarming because without their
education, our satisfactory development is impossible. Napoleon Bonaparte said,
“Give me an educated mother and I will give you an educated nation”. From this
line we can easily realize the importance of female education. Women need to be
educated for different reasons. To be a conscious citizen of the country, to be
an active member of the family and society, to be a good mother or wife and to
lead a self-reliant better life, a woman should be educated properly. Besides,
educated women have higher income potential than those who have had no
schooling. Many people consider women inferior to men. But it is their wrong
concept. Except the biological difference, a girl has every capacity to work
and to achieve high position in life as a man can. An educated woman is
conscious of her duties, rights and responsibilities. So, we should take every
necessary step to ensure an environment to educate our female force. Parents
ought to be encouraged to send their daughters to school. The govt. and NGO’s
should patronize the education for girls in order that they can be educated and
can play a vital role in the development of our country.
