“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby…”. A popular childhood jingle that suggests that before getting married and having children, there should be that period of courtship that will determine whether or not love is the feeling that abounds in a relationship. The two individuals having realized that they love each other could then make the crucial decision to spend the rest of their lives together in sacred matrimony. After making the decision to enter into marital bliss, there is usually a period of counseling during which the couple is "informed" about the pros and cons of a long-term commitment such as marriage, but are they really educated? about what education really means. The philosopher and educationist Krishnamurti (1953) is said to have said that “to understand life is to understand oneself and this is both the beginning and the end of education”. In this definition of education, it is suggested that education goes beyond knowing something or acquiring knowledge of something. It is after gaining this knowledge and using it through the understanding you have gained, that education is evident. 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 stages in preparation for marriage, namely the distant, the near and the immediate. John Paul II explains that the distance stage begins from childhood, where children learn values ​​and decisions from their parents, which includes interacting and socializing with individuals within and outside outside their family. The next step begins towards purity when the child's hormone...... middle of paper ...... role of man and woman. When couples are counseled, these learned truths are emphasized, and couples often agree that this is so, but this view is not guaranteed to endure within the marriage. In this century where women seem to dominate the workforce and leadership roles in a number of fields, they can sometimes become overzealous about the role they should play and sometimes get bored of seeing the man unable to match their earning capacity, 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 prepare you for certain 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, that whether individually, as a society or as a couple, cannot prepare a man or woman for marriage.