The paper acquaints the readers with the historical importance of education as a critical factor, which influenced the course of man's evolutionary process. It emphasizes that education is the outcome of societal need to preserve knowledge and transmit it to the future generations. However, with the dawn of modern times, education is also seen as a catalyst in empowering individuals, enriching knowledge and ennobling society as a whole.

It is a matter of concern that even the highly civilized man seems to have no concern for the planet Earth that is unique in the entire universe offering the only place where life can exist. It is a gift of cosmic processes as the unparalleled climatic and geological conditions prevailing over here facilitated the origin and survival of the living beings unlike the other known astral objects in the outer space. Not only that but his growing self-centricism and self-obsession, ignoring the impact of his actions and achievements might hasten the doomsday for the exalted life style of human beings, the symptoms of which are obvious in the present-day societies. Someway or the other, man, if educated and nurtured properly, could help societies develop or else adversely affects the world as is evident through the ages. An insight into the educational process in historical perspective could throw light on multiple dimensions in which man's life has been affecting the existence.

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