About the Importance of Education for International Understanding

1. EDUCATION FOR
INTERNATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING
TANZEELA.B.RONAD.

2. INTRODUCTIO
N:
•Education for International understanding
(EIU) is a value based approach to education.
The world has become a global village and
we all are global citizens.
•Therefore, it becomes important to teach
our younger kids in schools, the values of
“learning to live together”.

3. MEANING OF INTERNATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING
• International understanding is the ability to
observe critically and objectively and appraise the
conduct of man everywhere to each other ,
irrespective of the nationality of culture to which
they belong.
• Education for International Understanding means
a cosmopolitan education which will produce
loyalty to world citizenship.

4. DEFINITIONS OF
INTERNATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING:
• “International understanding is a feeling that the
individual is not only a member of his state , but a
citizen/member of the world.
-Oliver
goldsmith
• Dr. Radhakrishnan has rightly said “It is essential for us
not to live apart but to live together, understanding one
another’s must work for racial harmony. We may be
Indian, American, Russian etc but we are essentially

5. MEANS OF CREATING MUTUAL
UNDERSTANDING AMONG NATIONS
1. Respect to each other’s Culture
Understanding of the various cultures and
countries with their conditions and problems is essential for
international understanding Dr. Radhakrishnan has therefore
remarked,, “If human race is to survive. We have to
subordinate national pride to international feeling.”
2. Love to humanity
To love other is an innate good nature of the
human being. “Live and let others to live”, is the basic
foundation of international understanding, No body and no

6. WHY EDUCATION IS NECESSARY FOR
INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
Education is the key to uniting nation, bringing human
being closely together.
It is important to recognize the crucial role of education.
Education is the key tool in combating poverty, in
promoting peace, social justice, human righty,
democracy, cultural diversity and environmental
awareness.
Education for peace implies an active concept of peace

7. PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPING
INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
1. Cultivation in the youth the power of independent
thinking.
2. Training our young man to use their knowledge.
3. Correct meaning of patriotism.
4. The principle of inter dependence.
5. Elimination of fear from individual and social life.
6. Individual and social consciousness.
7. Principle of corporate life.

8. FUNCTIONS OF UNESCO IN PROPAGATING
INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
1.Removal of fear and disbelief from different
nations.
2.Removal of illiteracy and poverty from
backward nations.
3.Exchange of cultural, scientific, literary and
artistic achievements of nations
4.Encouragement to research.
5.Teachers, scientists and educationists to

9. 6. Giving financial aid to schools.
7. Scrutiny and preparation of standard books.
8. Organization of international exhibitions.
9. Xchange of teachers and students among
different nations.
10.Promotion of international goodwill though
mass media

10. CONCLUSION
There is great need of international understanding to
defeat poverty and to bring prosperity among the nations
of the world.
• We will have to wipe off the differences and conflicts for
international understanding.
• There is the great nee of common ideology among all the
nation of the world.
• We have to remove the narrow sense of nationalism from