Connecting Cultures: Education as a Bridge in Relationships

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The Importance of Education in Building Relationships

The importance of education is not only towards intercultural relationships but simple education also plays a crucial role in human life. The purpose of education is to produce a cultured person who can communicate well with other people, respect all different customs and traditions, and be a persuasive person who can interpret information received critically and share such information in a straightforward manner. They should also be able to fend off stranger things and criticism always with an open and critical attitude. Human life becomes more sophisticated with education, goals are achieved more easily, and the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong also grows. Each state in its Constitution provides for the establishment of formal education institutions, and the government also provides financial aid to parents through its subsidies, thus making it clear that their role in the effort to educate the public and improve life for the future. The old norm of a country passes away as the new norm of that country is passed on through the younger generation. After it is matured and accepted, then it is firmly rooted and becomes the tradition of the new country.

Bridging relationships through interactions or exchanges is not only applicable for intercultural relationships but can also be applied in our daily relationships with people around us. In earlier days, intercultural misconceptions often occurred due to the lack of interactions between the people of these conflicting cultures. Such misconceptions might lead to trust issues between members of different cultures as they do not have a deep understanding of each other. As traditions, foods, and beliefs of a certain cultural group are promoted, it is easy for members of other groups to misconceive and instead of sharing ideas and growing together, they instead isolate themselves from one another. According to Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist, education is the method by which people conduct their socialization and where culture is intentionally passed on to the next generation.

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Cultural Exchange Programs

But it may feel frustrating that's apparently relying upon peculiar and nearly exclusive acquaintances. Nevertheless, although it may sound bizarre not you but the person has cultural exchange, how did the person think you got access to all of these writings, of these boring scientists if through the person? Wasn't the person part of the person's journey of multi-culture? And the person having taught me things, wouldn't the person owe then some capability for judgment? What came first, the academic writing or the social-cultural experience, coming and going with the person? Or is like de Chardin's pea, a pseudo-problem, an ill-expression fixed with a turn of