EDUCATION – THE LIBERATING FORCE FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN

Education is equated to the vigorous force that redeems the oppressed from the enslavement and injustice. Bringing about a change in the status of women has always been on the radar screen. The education of girls and women is not noteworthy when it is considered by merely neglecting the root causes that have led to classifying women as the weaker section of the society. Education, with its multidimensional approaches and functions, is capable of uplifting the female human beings from the lower state but education becomes worthwhile only when it succeeds in setting free the girls and women folk from the oppressions. The liberation emphasised here is the development of the critical consciousness that allows the oppressor to question and oppose the ill-treatment. Education is the most effective in building such consciousness. The heart of the paper is the proclamation of education as the significant instrument for changing subjugated position through the intent of liberating girls and women