eChapter Name: Agricultural Extension
9789389907285
eBook Name: AGRICULTURE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
by R.K.Nanwal
Meaning, Concept & Definition of Education
1. “Education is the process of developing capabilities of the individuals so that they can adequately respond to their situations”.
2. The modern definition of Education- “It is the production of desirable changes in human behavior- in knowledge (things known), attitudes (things felt) and skills (things done), in all of them or in one or more of them”.
3. Education is the process of giving training and instruction to people to develop their knowledge, abilities, skills, character and mental powers.
Knowledge: It includes-facts, concepts, principles and relationship.
For example: Extension worker educates a farmer on cultivation practices in sweet corn. (Things known)
Attitude: An attitude can be loosely defined as a feeling towards some object, person, and situation or idea. For Example
Extension worker changes the negative attitude of a women farmer and makes them adopt Mushroom cultivation. (things felt)
Skills: Ability to do things.
For example: Extension worker improves skills of a cotton farmer on stem application of pesticide (things done)