Topic: How important is Traditional Education on Children in the World (Read 263 times)

A good person can be known from the kind of family that he comes from and the kind of practices they observe, if seen many parents that don't give their children the teaching of morality and to respect from young age and when they have grown with such attitudes become a problem for them to handle, many children learn to steal from young age and parents never  gave correction or taught otherwise, current society is at war with most traditional practices but unknowingly removing wisdom from the current generation.

The absence of traditional education in most societies has resulted in the wholesale importation of foreign traditions which keeps threatening the peaceful coexistence of the people. In a society where abortion and divorce cases were once so rare because it was seen as a taboo, their daughters and sons were taught to be sexually pure until after marriage.  But now, the people take delight in doing what was tagged a taboo and there are no more stigmas attached to doing things which were obviously bad and unspeakable. Sometimes I ask, "what went wrong? A lot actually went wrong. We have so neglected our traditions which holds good morals and values for foreign traditions which are alien to our general wellbeing.  It is not too late to go back to the root and make things right by making sure the upcoming generation are given pure traditional education.

The meaning of "traditional education" always shifts as time passes. What people consider modern education today might eventually be seen as traditional education in the future. Education consistently adapts to the surrounding circumstances. As parents, we may not perceive the world as our children do, which highlights the importance of focusing on fundamental skills in education. This includes teaching them basic skills such as reading, writing, counting, how to learn, and how to distinguish between what is good and what is bad. Equipping our children with these essential skills allows them the freedom to choose what is best for them.

The problem with the whole "Traditional education" thing for the children is that it greatly depends on the value of the parents and the definition for them of a good or proper education. Here in my country, it is pretty much frown upon telling a children to say to them they will be loved not matter what, because it implies parents would be okey with them ending up being homosexual, instead of it, the role of their gender is taught since a very early age. The typical things: male children are tought how to do men things and the female children are told they need to learn how to cook and do laundry.
That is the proper way to do things, depending whom you ask in developed countries, like the United States and the European Union.

Actually, because of things like this is why there is a full blown legal battle going on in the United States on whether allowing or now for teachers to give sexual education and gender based education to middle school students. Parents believe their are losing the rights to educate their children with the values they inherited, while left-leaning teachers feel in the need to teach inclusive values to them, which may not be compatible with the parents' views of the world/society.

You nailed it traditional education broading the knowledge of children through critical thinking, manner of communication and humunity all round that can help children become more Smart.

It develop them on imaginary thinking that most time become reality just as our fourfather do in their days.

Exposed some hidden secrets of life to children beyond what is obtained in the western education by learning the boundary of man kind and some supreme being encounter and conveanant.

In the current era of globalization, the customs and social norms of every country have become very similar. Due to this, various countries have moved far away from their cultural traditions and purity. This causes many problems internally. For example, our Asian subcontinent countries are male-dominated where men will earn from outside and girls will be busy with housework. This is a chain through this chain society and family are managed properly. But in today's era, girls are also reduced to earning jobs, making them more self-reliant and resulting in divorce rates which are much higher than earlier rates (to put it very briefly). I am not saying that the harmful effect of this is very high, through this the earning or production capacity of the country has increased a lot but internal problems or complications have been created. The current generation is drifting far away from their own culture and tradition which was their identity. So I think our traditional education is very important to keep alive our characteristics, our heritage, our culture.

I hate this era of society where in social media is taking over the typical society that we have. And you know what? These influencers that have a huge following are telling that the educational system is wrapped and crumpled because they don't like it. The heck they are saying? They've grown with the same educational system and yet they tell that if they have a chance to change it, they would. They are actually changing it and the beliefs of the reach they have per audience that listens to them. It's an ugly thing to see that when they're talking badly about the educational system because I know that in some parts, they're really bad but it's the foundation that we're talking about here. Not everyone is very fortunate to start studying and have that education until they grow up. Many are forced to work and have that child labor because they are sustaining first what they should have in their stomachs than feed their brains with wisdom and knowledge that they will learn from the school and teachers.

I just hate them when they are advocating the wrong thing and inserting into the minds of their young audiences that they should no longer believe in the system. Well, I have a challenge to them that if they don't like the educational system, then they shouldn't let their kids study and just let them do what they wanna do. This is the treasure that no one is going to steal from them because it is inside their minds and the ideas, the intelligence, the emotional quotient is there. They're all talking as if they're the best gurus and influencers but with that, they're all just shit in my face when they talk cheap and they're all just for the views. This only shows that we really have to strive to give our children good education as much as we can, they don't chose to be born on this world but we did and that's our responsibility to give them education so that no one can fool them as they grow old.

Traditional education is very important to children because when I was still young they taught me our tradition and I learned that tradition helps in shaping one character, and the way people live and interact with each other. a tribe without tradition you see them misbehaving, but I don't think that tradition education will take place in this morden generation, and the generation that is to come

I believe we learn the first language from our present before we started reading some letters words, before we started writing to prove to our parents that will are learning a new thing from school which is the evidence you are seeing right now, for those who can read and write to be in this potential forum.

Traditional education make people to know what will benefit the society by bringing development and new things that will make people to live to remember the good leaders that established them, but nowadays leaders only fight for what will benefit their family  and what will make others people to be their servant in the society.

It is not all tradition that mandates people to seek the approval of parents before getting married. Traditional marriage is also peculiar to certain cultures because this kind of marriage celebration has no place in some traditions. I know in some parts of the world the bride or groom has to pay the bride or groom's price but this culture is alien to some Western cultures. It is popular in most countries in Asia and Africa but many other countries don't pay such price


Women are no longer expected to end their careers in the home in the kitchen or raising children. Today's woman has her goals and ambitions and he has to work just as men to accomplish them. The global economic meltdown is also forcing women to abandon tasks at home because they also need to support the family financially. Some societies still mandate their citizens to go through some military training for a certain period. However due to the the spread of democracy that promotes fundamental human rights mandatory military training is not as strict as it was in ancient Greece.  


Parents have the responsibility of guiding their children so that they can imbibe the right values. This can be achieved if parents spend more time with children instead of allowing teachers or caregivers to take responsibility. Parents should also behave responsibly because children mostly learn from the behaviour of their parents.  

A child without proper traditional education and knowledge instill in them always exhibit some kind of characteristics from those that are brought up with the traditional knowledge. Their behaviour and how they interact to the outside world is always different and sometimes not acceptable in some part of the world they might be finding themselves in the future. Having both knowledge is better but I still feel with your traditional knowledge you can go far and still achieve great things because most of the people that are already ahead and following their footsteps are instilled with this traditional knowledge.

Your personality that possesses such knowledge can give room for greater opportunities when you find yourself in those places. Traditional education begins with the family, then to the friends (peer groups) and to the society. If the family have failed in that aspect, every other that comes after it will also fail and won’t be able to control such child again when they misbehave in the society. Moral and good conduct from the traditional education still remains the best today even when modernization is slowly taken over everywhere today.

The traditional education plays a role in teaching children morals and the fundamentals of life, during the early days people have culture and tradition which the represent and been known for, talking about political manipulation I don't think that it was done those days, unless in the recent time where everything has changed, the political class now have a say in everything that happens I the society.
For this traditional education to assimilate in children brain, I think it should go along with the modern education which will bring the children with technology based innovations, the global education is been revitalised in other to match with digital learning so these two education system has to work together for the system to be complete.

Traditional education is reading, writing, and arithmetic... with a little history and science thrown in. Traditional education never had any political manipulation in it like it does nowadays.

What is that important in traditional education if not combined with the modern education, we can decide not to neglect all our inheritance to nothing and then try to pass them to our heirs, but we cannot do that alone without having it combined with the western education, children were expected to be exposed of many things in life and about our own generational lineage, but we must not neglect or forbids our own modest way of training children in a contemporary western educational systems.

In life it is important for everyone to recognise where he or she is coming from , when people don't know about where they are coming from , about their tradition it is as if they have lose direction.  It is good for parents to give their children about their tradition and where they are coming from so that it can also be passed to the next generation. When one don't have knowledge about his or her origin it is very and it is as if the parents have not done a job that they are supposed to carry out.

Discipline on children is not cruelty, even the bible suggests the use of rod as a way of sanction.

Before a child envision his or herself, the parents must have create a long term objective and the direction given to the children are made toward that objective.

Observe one thing among families, the families that gives their children  free will normally gives the children the freedom to be engulfed with youthful exuberance that leads them away to old age.

Therefore , there is need to guide our children with strong Principles proposed by traditional education and systems.

The social well being of a child is also dependent on the level of awareness being created traditionally towards the development of the mindset of the child on how to relate with issues in the environment and also on how to relate with individual in the same space with them. It is necessary that regardless of Western education, a child needs to be nurtured in good upbringing and to be familiarize with way of life of their people as it helps them to be more confident in their self while growing.

The educational process always changes with the changes of society, from awareness to life perspective all change and people are forced to adapt to existing things. Looking from a small-scale perspective on the family's responsibility, intervention from the previous generation will partly guide cognitive development and there will be prejudices that exist throughout social prejudice, openness in modern culture can all bring out different aspects of life. I can describe something as real as whether knowledge is there and whether we can access it or not, like how the goal of life can be seen through awareness and how we achieve it there are many routes. I'm not sure if it's the same in other places, but I always appreciate that moral education is the foundation for us to develop many other aspects of life, but ironically the current context makes life easier. Forcing too many things gives us choices that I see as traps, overemphasizing material things, promoting personal ego,... as a delusion that makes us get stuck in life itself.

Traditional education is really important for children worldwide as it provides structured learning, knowledge, critical thinking skills & social interaction. It fosters cultural awareness, tolerance & prepares them for future challenges. I believe its effectiveness varies based on cultural context & individual needs. Supplementing traditional education with innovative approaches is essential to ensure holistic development & meet the diverse needs of children globally.

So cruel, huh?

If you are in a different mood then try reading your own post and see it is still that you want to insist on because it looks like you are implying that parents need to be a hard ass to their children and just raise what they want to be.

I wonder what is the parent is a psychopath, you are suggesting that all his/her children be like that way.

Thanks for your contribution

Well the early education scene is all about our social circles, family vibes, and those age-old traditions and those really affect the children. But let's be real, modern life's shaking things up, especially in relationships. Every society's got its groove for educating kids, and messing with that can leave adults clueless about social norms. It's a powerful reminder that by investing in the proper upbringing and education of our children, we contribute to the overall well-being and harmony of society.

The role of social change in the educational system is quite enormous as so many things have changed.

I don't know if the Greek educational institutions and learning process are just only teaching children based gender roles or sex because even in other countries, the above on quote was true and same with what was practiced in other continents but now things have changed. Even the kind of democracy that was practiced in Greeks in the past would have changed.

In the past, there were no female combatants but today we have female soldiers and paramilitary all over. We see women doing jobs that are exclusive for men and women taking up dominant roles in the family because quite alot have changed economically and many people have argued that it is because of falling economy and also that the female are now favoured in job employment. The point however is that things have really changed from education to government irresponsibility to provide economic leadership.

I am confused i do not think this set up of people in a relationship not being able to introduce each other to their own families is brought by social change this kind of thing has been going on even before and we do not know it why? Because they have kept it a secret tradition have always kept couples apart and there has been so much media representation of that didn’t juliet and romeo snuck around as well? that piece is probably older than most kids now so i do not think it is only coming up just now

I do not think it is the education that is to blame here but instead the kind of family one grew up in if a child was born in a family that is loving and accepting then that person would grow into an adult that could freely tell their parents and their other family members who they love and who they are in a relationship with

The first phases of education is within the human social environment, the social environment consists of the family, and the entire social system such as peer groups, chieftaincy title holders , traditional laws and other social classing.

Education in the social system is mostly dominated by traditional rules and practices that dictates acceptable conducts.

But, modern life and practices have destroyed the important role of the native education. For instance, tradition all over the world dictates that , the supposed parties in a relationship must be known by both families and what is recommended is traditional marriage.

Yet social change brought by religious teachings and conceptualization of individual freedom have changed this important education , two adults could be in a relationship for years without the families knowing.

In the Greek native educational system, the female child is given the social education of home keeping , child rearing while , the male children are given military education from childhood by the governments of the justifications.

In every society, there are social systems that shapes the early education of an individual and when that stage is tampered and not properly defined, the child grow up to be an adult without proper social education or native education. And such individuals becomes less important to the social system, in terms of contributions and social relation.

Generally, the social or native education solely instills a culture of social consciousness, what is bad and good in the eyes of the society and it's consequences.

These things guides the social conduct of individuals even as they proceed to the official sector of education or the western style of education.

So what can we do?
We all owe our children a responsibility and obligation, this is not far from the biblical instruction of training a child. Others may have failed their children due to circumstances or family behaviours. With your decision society will be a better place for you and our children.