The Essence of Education Management

Preschools, primary and secondary schools, universities and colleges: these are only some of the institutions that provide education to quite a number of people. The primary characters of the schools are the students and the teachers. The students are individuals who are studying to acquire knowledge and skills. The teachers, professors and instructors, meanwhile, are persons who impart those knowledge and skills. To the eyes of the public, they may seem only the people that are member of the academe. But behind the scene, there are individuals who concerned themselves with the day-to-day operations of the school. They specialize in education management or administration.

The aim of education management should be closely related to purpose of education. Schools and other educational institutions exist for the sake of providing education to those who wanted it. Education itself has its own. Because schools and other related institutions serve as the ideal venue for providing quality education, their goals should be similar to the purpose of education. If educational managers fail to recognize the need to overlap their goals to the purpose of education, they could become engrossed with putting more stress with methods and procedures rather than with how students could be educated better.

Education management should not fall to the danger of managerialism. Managerialism is the conviction that organizations are more similar rather different, thus there is a need to employ managerial techniques, solutions, rules. The pitfall of managerialism is that there is often an excess of usage of the techniques or rule, even if they run counter to the common sense. Practitioners see a little difference in handling a company to running a school.

Thus, principals and other school administrators should always think of the education first, before thinking of how to manage their respective institutions, as they should be.