OPSC OAS Paper 2 GS 2019 Solved Paper

Question Numbers: 76-80
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow passage. Your answer to these questions should be based on the passages only.
Education is a process of learning. Some people become equipped with knowledge and teach, while others learn. For centuries, artistic skills were passed on from one generation to another in an informal way. Today teaching and learning is mostly formal, starting from the period in school and then in higher institutions. The cultural and social education that we need is learnt from at home and in society. Both formal and informal education are necessary for an all-rounded development. so, education gives us various skills in diverse fields. These skills are very important to our life and decide the quality of our existence. These skills can be acquired by formal training in institutions and more importantly, through the experiences of our life. Thus education means acquiring knowledge both to become skilled professionally and to live life in a righteous and cultured way. Both aspects, formal or professional education and informal or cultural education, are necessary for a well developed society. As far as education in higher institutions is concerned, increasingly, there is a preference for professional courses. One wants to become an engineer or doctor or scientist or management executive or take up some specific profession. So education has become very specialized. The options have also increased enormously. Formal education has become necessary for obtaining specific jobs. In all the fields computers play a key role. So to know how to use the computer is very important. Education is the bed-rock of a society. In a society where people are illiterate and uncultured, there is neither sound economic development nor safe and peaceful living. Law and order, scientific research, safety and security against crime, successful commerce and trade, the uplift of economically weaker people, are all possible only if the members of the society are educated and properly and usefully employed. Not only does education securing economic and social progress and raise people’s productivity and creativity, it enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world.