Technical Education

Technical education denotes the knowledge and use of some special skills. Engineering, agriculture, weaving, carpentry comes under technical education. Technical education teaches us not only theory but also practice to our subject. Technical education is the reverse of academic education. Academic education gives us knowledge but it has no practical application. One who has received technical education is called technician.  For example: a pilot can drive an aero plane only if he has practice on it, an engineer can build a bridge by practice and a carpenter can make furniture with practice as well. None of these are possible with only academic education.  Each and every person should be given technical education according to their skills and capacity through which everyone can earn for their own livelihood.

Technical education helps the progress of a country. Technicians can construct factories, roads, bridges, canals etc. they can drive trucks, trains, ships and aero planes. They can help to work mines and produce electricity. They can help to make use of forests, in growth of agriculture and production of raw materials. They can operate telephones and wireless sets. Technicians can help in every sphere of nations productive activities. Academic education is important but along with that technical education should also be provided so that people could be able to do those stuffs rather than just be able to give examinations and pass. Schools and colleges should keep technical classes too so that children could work along with knowing about those things. So that they could get the real vision of those things they are studying theoretically.

Technical education helps a nation to be self sufficient. If we do not have our own technicians, we will have to bring them from other countries. If other countries do not agree to help us, we cannot develop out industrial status and agriculture in a proper way.  We have to pay them a very big amount while bringing technicians from other countries. Now days, we are undertaking making development projects in our country, but we lack skilled technicians. So many plans and projects have to be postponed just because of fewer technicians which lead to slow progress.

Technical education helps to solve the problems of unemployment. There is a great demand for skilled technicians in industries, trades, factories and in agriculture too. A large number of technicians can be absorbed in various fields. They do not have to remain unemployed like academic graduates and other educated persons. Even if technicians do not find employment they can stand on their own legs. They can start their own industries or trades.

One of the reasons of the slow progress of our country is the neglect of technical education. We have few technical schools and colleges in our country. We have little technical growth of academic schools and colleges. These schools and colleges produce person who cannot find employment. On the other hand, we lack technicians who can be absorbed in our expanding trades and industries. It is high time we turn our attention to the establishment of technical schools and colleges. Technical schools should be opened at different places of our country so that those uneducated people could go and learn some technical things. This technical education helps people to know how agriculture could be done in proper way, carpenter to work with furniture smoothly. It help women to work with own willpower by opening a cottage industry of their own, help other women to join and work together which will help them boast up their confidence level to work and increase their business even more than in past. This is why technical education is must.