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The first thing that strikes me about education is knowledge gain. Education gives
us the knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking
at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on everything in life. People
debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives
knowledge. Some say, education is the process of gaining information about the
surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are partly
right. But the conversion of information to knowledge is possible because of
education. Education makes us capable of interpreting rightly the things perceived.
Education is not about lessons and poems in textbooks. It is about the lessons of
life.
In fact, certain professionals like doctors, dentists and Nurses are obliged to follow
mandatory life long learning. This is done so that they keep pace with all the
research and development done in the medical field. These professionals not only
needs to update themselves about these developments, but also learn new
techniques of practice and perfect old ones. Learning about patient management
and the delivery of care is rather a continuing process. Since these professionals,
especially doctors have huge moral responsibility towards the patients and society
in general; continuing education is a must for them.