What Is Education
What Is Education
What Is Education
- The need to prepare a new breed of educators who can focus on ‘purpose’. To help
educators develop a clear vision regarding the purpose of education and its
relationship to the meaning of life.
- To acquaint educators with the basic problems of education
- Enable educators to evaluate the wider variety of suggestions offered as solutions to
these problems.
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- To guide in the development of an internally consistent point of view and a program t
-That relates realistically to the larger world context
1. Mahatma Gandhi: All round drawing out of the best in man (body, mind and
spirit).
2. Rabindranath Tagore: Enabling the mind to find out the ultimate truth,
which gives us wealth of inner light and love which gives significance to life.
3. Aristotle: It is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body
4. Rousseau: It is the development of a child from within
5. Herbert Spencer: It is complete living
6. Plato: It is the capacity to feel pain when inflicted by pain and to feel pleasure
when there is a pleasant situation.
7. Pestalozzi: It is the natural harmonious and progressive development of a
man’s innate power.
8. John Dewey: It is the process of living through continuous construction of
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Education can be summarized as the means through which the aims and habits of a group
of people is sustained from one generation to another. This can be done formerly or
informally. It is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind
(Kneller,1941).
To give clearer views to enable a person to see or understand ideas more clearly
To correct temperament
To form habits and manners
To fit one usefully into his own society [ To have civic efficacy and social development]
Help in self-realization and individual development
Education is necessary for survival of the society. For any society to plan her curriculum, she
must know her aims of education. Aim gives direction to the activity. Every county therefore
comes up with their own aims on which the curriculum is based. Aims are determined
idealistically, politically, socially, economically.
The following are some of the aims of education for most countries although it is really a task to
come up with general aims of education: -
It is evident that by now we have an idea of some of the aims of education today. Most countries
today advocate for educating someone as compared to training that person. A trained person is
rigid while an educated person is more open and humane.
2.6 CHARACTERISTICS/ NATURE OF EDUCATION
It is a life-long process
It is systematic/procedural
It entails development of a person and his society
It modification of behavior
It is purposeful
It is a continuous reconstruction of life’s experiences
It is dynamic
It is balanced development
It adjusts an individual.
It is direction
It is integrated growth
FUNCTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY
A) Self- Awareness
B) Comprehensiveness
C) Penetration
D) Flexibility