Correct Answer - Option 3 : Both I and II
To understand an abstract concept like education, one is required to explicate its meaning or nature from the point of view of the functions such concepts perform or the contexts in which such concepts are appropriately used. Etymologically, the word "Education" is derived from the Latin words "educare", "educere" and "educantum". The Following are the Characteristics of Education:
- It is a life long process because a person learns through his experience and experience goes life-long.
- It helps children in making them mature and free.
- It is a dynamic process because education changes as per the need. Hence, it can't be static.
- It helps in the development of the individual in all aspects whether it is mental, emotional, physical, social, moral or spiritual.
- Higher education helps to maintain a healthy society that prepares educated health care consumers and professionals.
- It helps in the development of a child's innate power. For example, Edison's school teacher labelled him as "abnormal". Still, he succeeded in becoming one of the great inventors.
- Education modifies behaviour by bringing out desirable changes in one's behaviour. Professor Drever has supported the statement "Education is a process in which and by which knowledge, character and behaviour of the young are shaped and moulded."
- It helps in social adjustment, for example with parents, relatives, friends and teachers.
- It could be a direct process when the teacher and the students are in the direct contact but it is labelled indirect when education is non-formal or informal i.e. from a distance.
- It enriches a person's experience when a person aims at his goal.
- It helps in attainment of goals in one's life.
- It should be noted that it could be both theoretical and practical.
- It is the demand of the modern age because gone are the days when people didn't have the required skillset to make a task viable.
- It is scientific in nature as that each passing day technology is evolving.
- Education brings social change. It is a powerful tool for social reconstruction.
Hence, we conclude that the above-mentioned statement is related to education.