Education is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion, and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, however, learners can also educate themselves. Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational.
Religious Education: According to the Buddhist perspective.
In Shantideva’s ‘Engaging in the Bodhisattvas’ Deeds’ it says:
“The Dharma is the only medicine
To heal the sufferings of migratory beings
And the source of every happiness.”
The precious Dharma is the only source of relief from the sufferings as well as the source of all temporary and ultimate happiness. As such, graduating after years of intensive study, contemplation, and practice, monks either stay to teach, work and serve the monastery, or go to smaller monasteries, foreign countries or elsewhere to teach. Some go into solitary retreat and devote the remaining part of their lives for intensive meditation. Many of them become active members of society.
