TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Outline; INTRODUCTION..... Technical education as compared to liberal education.... Its application in industry.... as a mean of progress...

Technical education aims of training an individual in some particular branch of knowledge an trade, and as such, Its scope is limited. It does not claim to effect an all round development of personality, as liberal education does. It enables one to earn his livelihood in a respectable way. A carpenter's skill can help him in earning in his daily bread, while a philosopher's intellectualism may bring him no such gain. This shown the technical education in the life of an individual as well as in the progress of a nation.

We live in highly technical age. it is an age when strength and power mean nothing mechanization army, and Productive Agriculture means cultivation carried ut by means of machines. Thus, machine has entered into the soul of our social life, and no aspects of society is complete without it. Therefore, in order to keep pace with the strong and the progressive nation of the world, It is necessary to mechanize our industry, agriculture, defense and every other aspect of our national life.

Technical Education claims the attention of all the people, both on individual as well as national grounds. Today, life at the national level is a life lived with the help of scientific knowledge. Therefore, a progressive country bound to have a large number of technically trained and skilled men.