Education plainly means the grasp of self-worth. It enables individuals to use freedom, not determined by luck, ignorance or circumstance. Quality education helps to shape attitude, disposition and values (intrinsic and instrumental) and lifts them above deceit and distortion.
Democratic education is value-based. It seeks the harmony of ends and means and cultivates moral virtues, not militant culture or trade of acrimonies slighting civility. It thus brings private individuals into the public sphere of citizenship and makes them responsible.
Obviously, disposition is allied with their ethics to act decently without being habit-driven which involves impulsive acts without much thought and care. Educational thought is vital for leadership to ward off rash conduct in the problematic conditions of public life and enable them to acquire cognition, aptitude and insight to solve vital issues of Nepali society. Howard Zinn argues, “Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
” Democracy provides a normative frame for citizens to feel, experience, reflect and act in their best interest and enables them to use the pursuit of creativity, rights and duties. To entrench civic virtues, Nepali leaders and people need to tend thoughtfulness and human warmth while dealing with each other and even those outside their social and political affiliation. Community institutions The community institutions of Nepal -- families, schools, cult.