"First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the child...". A popular childhood jingle that suggests that before getting married and having children, there should be that period of dating that will determine whether or not love is the feeling that abounds in a relationship. The two individuals, once they come to the conclusion that they love each other, could then make the crucial decision to spend the rest of their lives together in holy matrimony. After making the decision to enter marital bliss, there is usually a period of counseling where the couple is "educated" on the pros and cons of a long-term commitment like marriage, but are they really being educated? about what education really means. The philosopher and educationist Krishnamurti (1953) is said to have stated that "to understand life is to understand ourselves and this is both the beginning and the end of education." In this definition of education, it is suggested that education goes beyond the purpose of knowing something or being equipped with knowledge of something. Having acquired that knowledge and using it through the understanding you have gained is where education is obvious. Having established what education is, we can now decide whether or not education prepares men and women for marriage. Pope John Paul II distinguished three phases in preparation for marriage, namely the remote one, the proximate one and the immediate one. John Paul II explains that the remote phase begins in childhood, where children learn from their parents' values and decisions, which include interacting and socializing with individuals inside and outside their family. The closest stage begins approximately in purity when the baby hormone... in the center of the card... the role of man and woman. When couples receive counseling, these educated truths are emphasized and couples often agree that this is the case, but this view is not guaranteed to remain within the marriage. In this century where women seem to dominate the workforce and leadership roles in a number of industries, they can sometimes become overzealous about the role they are expected to play and sometimes become bored with the man who is unable to match their earning power, which with all the education about marriage, could not have prepared her for the actual experience of marriage. It is true that education can help you prepare for aspects of life, such as a successful career, but I believe that experience is the best teacher in marriage, and that no form of education, whether individual, social, or as a couple, can prepare a man or a woman at the wedding.
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