The educational processes, without which the individual and social
liveswouldextinct,proposesoundplansofthegrowthanddurabilityof
the socialmovements.JohnDewey’ssaysthatexistence, aswellasthe
continuationofsocieties,dependexclusivelyupontheprocessofthecul-
turalconveyance whichoccursonlyviathetransferenceofthecustoms
ofworking,thinking,andfeelingfromtheadultstotheinfants.Lifecan-
not continue unless the finepatterns, expectations, ambitions, criteria,
and opinions are delivered to the new comers..
The source of the acquired psychological and social composites is,
simply,education.Onthat account,the necessityof educationforindi-
viduals, aswellassocieties, issubstantiated.. “Supposing peopleleave
thisearthwithouttheirchildren,andreturntwentyyearslater,theywill
find them as same as cattle.”. This saying is accurate to a great extent.
Inthe western north territoriesof India,it happenedfrequently that
wolves kidnapped some children and slain most of them. They,
however,pitiedsomeandkeptinsafe.Assomemencouldidentifythe
placesofthosechildren,theywentthereandcouldovercomethewolves
andsavethechildren.Later,theynamedthemthewolves’kidsorwild
kids since they followed the very same natures and habits of wolves.
They alsoimitated the wolves’cries, andate like them,and torntheir
clothes,andconfinedthemselvesinisolateddarkplaces,andbehavedas
iftheywererealwolves.Nonsuccesswastheresultofeveryattemptof
civilizing, educating, or teaching those children how to talk.
Inhis ‘Life in IndianJungles,’ ValentinePauldescribes one of those
wild children whom was put in an orphanage in February, 4, 1867:
“Thatboyshowedsignsofidiocy;suchasthelownessoftheforehead,
anxiety,anddisorder.Heoftenopenedhismouthjustlikeawildanimal.
Heusedsmelling,rather thantasting,foridentifyingthings. Itwasim-
possibleto leavehimwithoutsupervision.He usedtousehislegsand
handsinmoving.Fewmonthslater,hecouldusehislegsonly.Heused
to pause suddenly and walk unsoundly. He used to move his head
swiftlyto the right and left,andgaze onthings asif hewas waylaid.
Until his demise, he could not change his way of life.”
Accordingly, education is an acquired matter. This is tendered in
God’s saying:
AndAllahhasbroughtyouforthfromthewombsofyourmothers,you
did not know anything, and He gave you
the hearing and the sight and the hearts that you may give thanks.*
Evidently, the Quranic text emphasizes that knowledge and the