Relative Importance of Knowledge And Schooling


The rate of population growth may be brought down through education because of the strong link between knowledge of fertility and literacy provided by the school. The knowledge to regulate fertility through different ways increases with an increase in school years. Education develops abilities among females to do better jobs which also reduces birth rates. A large number of school years for the acquisition of knowledge delays the age of marriage. 

Because of the required time and self-confidence of females to get better opportunities for good jobs.  This way pressure on the education system in the future declines. With the declining or slow growth of the school-age population, a society can spend more on schooling to provide quality education (Haq and Haq, 1998).  

According to Hargreaves (as cited in Willinsky, 2005), it is important that schooling of individuals incorporate such knowledge which supports the beneficiary of education for both individual and society. For example, if an individual leaves the educational process after matriculation or intermediate education, he/she should have enough knowledge and skills to earn for him/her and contribute to the development of society. 

Schools provide knowledge, skills, and values to enhance the abilities and competencies of individuals by creating systems, teams, and cultures. This maximizes the opportunities for mutual, spontaneous learning striving to form learning systems, learning organizations, and professional learning communities (Willinsky, 2005).

To be effective workers in their different fields, individuals receive necessary knowledge and skills through liberal education in their schooling. The knowledge and skills equip individuals with the abilities to be good citizens, able to understand, live and operate in different socio-political cultures, adapting to an increasingly integrated world. The students are imparted with knowledge and skills in their schooling process to create students who think continuously and think critically (Xhafferi & Iqbal, 2009).