THE CULTURAL GAP IN ANDRAGOGY AND A COMPARISON WITH THE GURUKULA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION

The first and prime right of all human beings is education. Without education, we are incomplete, and our life is meaningless. To assess human capital, education is one of the most important sources. When people speak about education, they tend to associate it with schooling, or any structured institutional idea of education. So, we see many picturing places like schools or colleges when they see or hear the word. They may also think of unique positions, such as teachers or tutors. But is that all that education is? The issue with this is that the way a lot of schools and teachers work is not exactly what we can fairly call education when attempting to help people learn. In addition to that, culture finds no place in such a perspective, and in the system, as a consequence. Although schools, colleges and universities do form a part of education, they are limited, generally, to the formal dimension of education. Education could also be informal, or even non-formal. In essence, it is a process of welcoming truth and opportunity; of promoting and giving time to exploration. In formal or informal settings, education may take place and any experience that has a formative impact on the way one thinks, feels, or acts can be called educational. The teaching approach is called pedagogy, in contrast to which, we have andragogy, a term coined originally in 1833. They could be seen as two different sets of approaches towards learning.