• Introduction
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh the great Indian philosopher and tradition of experimentation with education and educational methods crossed a long expanse. Sri Aurobindo was a dedicated to the knowledge of life. Who propounding the knowledge of life and came to the realization that the India wants to have a better place in the world, Indian educa- tion and educating method are to be enriched. This enrichment will be achieved through endless experimentation. Sri Aurobindo is an educationist not by chance but by choice. Like Tagore and Swami Vivekananda and other eminent personalities he also dedicated his whole life in achieving the perfect goal of human life. He knew well that without a successful and fruitful education system India can never achieved the desired goal. This article will make a searching analysis about the concept of education and its distribution method as it was promulgated by Sri Aurobindo.
• Objectives of Education
The first objectives of education is to obtain knowledge, techniques and skill and these various types of facts of education one can get through the understanding and studying literature, culture, nation and its history. Sri Aurobindo strongly believed that real education purify human physical body which can possible through the hard training of the every sense. Francis Bacon once affirmed:
“Discretion is more than eloquence”.
Like Bacon, Sri Aurobindo viewed that real education must enlarge the logical faculty in the learners along with mental growth in them. Matthew Arnold belonged from Victorian England, who is most admired educationist believed that
“good literature instructs the lessons of good and bad”
Like Arnold, Sri Aurobindo viewed education as the best standard that can teach people ethics, morals and the sense of good and bad. He thought that human beings contain in their physical self some fundamental about goodness
In order to establish a PHILOSOPHY ON TEACHING, a sequence of events happen in history to open a doorway to “Society about Education and Schooling”, as the description of Public Education Goals for Our Educational System came from the ideas of two famous men, Horace Mann and Thomas Jefferson.
Sri Aurobindo said that nothing can be taught, the try principle of a teacher is to be a guide and not an instructor. A teacher’s role was
Mr. Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy enlightened my deep thinking about truth. Then I read Mr. Rousseau 's of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right, and became a believer of social contract theory; I also self-studied some of Weber’s, Marx’s and Durkheim’s sociology thoughts, but the two-year preparation for Master study put an abeyance on my reading plan. Regarding to the educational philosophy, I self-studied the thoughts as ancient as Quintilian’s and Comenius’s, and as modern as Horace Mann’s, Dewey’s and Dr. Weis’ educational thoughts. Moreover, my teaching and administrating experience in both private for-profit education organization and in public schools in China plus the study of the real-life problems and contemporary researches in UB, generate a deep feeling that education studies should become an independent, open and scientific field of study. Furthermore, during my master study, I encountered numerous materials about social injustice, cultural prejudice, racial discrimination and political corruption which are all jeopardizing education practices, but most of our debates in the classroom were difficult to generate constructive suggestion. It is always good to have different opinions, but our discussions rely too heavily on individual’s life experience and it is no doubt that when the empiricism prevails, science dims. This observation motivates me to explore the education studies in a more scientific way. I hope my future effort will enable people to discuss and solve education problems on a scientific track, so that the education system in human society will be the secure for educating the “ideal human
Education has different perspectives and meanings for most. Education is known as the process of receiving methodical instruction especially in institutions such as high schools or colleges. Education rightfully benefits an individual’s ability to explore a deeper literate meaning while also helping avoid societal embarrassment. Some see the general aspect of education as a measure of socioeconomic status while others perceive education as a tool of knowledgeable attainment. Regardless of the many different faces education possesses all combine to create the concept that education serves as a medium to producing a learning society.
Clearly another purpose of schools is to teach students different subject areas. The purpose of education is to expand your knowledge, and your world. I believe that the pu...
True education brings self-realization and enlightenment. It seeks to unfold all that is good and noble to individual. It is an all round development of human potentialities for the attainment of a full life. He believed that education should help an individual to achieve complete manhood, so that all his powers may be developed to full extent for his own individual perfection and the perfection of the society in which he is born. The highest mission of education is to help in realising the inner principle of the unity of all knowledge and all activities of social and spiritual being. Tagore’s concept of ideal education covers aims of education, ideal atmosphere for education, curriculum, teacher and method.
Education is needed for individuals to function in society. Without the proper tools, people would be a burden instead of an asset. To become an asset, individuals need to be exposed to those elements which would enrich their lives through knowledge. Knowledge in our society is basically learned through education. The basic knowledge each person should receive from an education is the three R’s; reading writing, and arithmetic. These mediums will enable a person to survive in today’s society. However, education needs to provide more than survival skills. It needs to provide the abilities for individuals to be productive members of society.
Education is generally seen as a formal process of instruction, based on a theory of teaching, to impart formal knowledge to one or more students (Cogburn, n.d.). Henceforth, individuals seek to acquire some form of schooling from pre-school through secondary school while others may go on to tertiary to better him or her in some way. A definition of education according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary is that education is “a process of teaching, training and learning, especially in schools or colleges, to improve knowledge and develop skills.” Where education in the common parlance has become a process of adding layers of one’s store of knowledge, the true aim of education is to call forth that which is essential to the individual (White, 2006). Furthermore, and according to Coombs and Ahmed 1974, education is a continuing process, spanning the years from earliest infancy through adulthood and necessarily involving a great variety of methods and sources. Education also involves inculcating in students distinct bits of knowledge; therefore education is an additive process (White, 2006). It adds to an individual as well as it adds to a country through the individuals who are and would have been or are being educated. According to a study conducted by Olaniyan and Okemakinde 2008, education creates improved citizens and helps to upgrade the general standard of living in a society. Furthermore, education plays a key role in the ability of a developing country to absorb modern technology and to develop the capacity for self-sustaining growth and development (Todaro and Smith, 2012).
Education is the key that allows people to move up in the world, seek better jobs, and ultimately succeed fully in life. Education is very important, and no one should be deprived of it. The right to an education is one of the human natural rights which every person should have from youth to when they are old. Human natural rights are fundamental privileges acquire from the rational nature of man and the natural moral. Right to an education is an inalienable right for it cannot be renounced or transferred because it is necessary for the fulfillment of one’s primitive obligation.
In this essay I am going to talk about Hamm’s conception of education which is broken down into three general uses of education, the Sociological use (E1), Institutional use (E2) and the General enlightenment use (E3). I will also critically discuss the three uses of education providing a distinct and compatible argument and also bring it to the South African schooling system.
The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners, who are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. Education is about teaching students, not subjects. It is about engaging students in their learning, and maximizing the potential of each and every child. Education is about looking beyond the child’s intellect,
Education is man’s most valuable possession: it is the concept through which one’s love for learning stems, and the equipment used to pave an individual’s path to success. Although easily influenced by the opinions of others, education is one of the few concepts that neither internal nor external stress can strip from our being. The future of our society lies in the hands of our educators; the values and morals instilled by such figures govern the actions of the earth’s people.
One of the most clearly seen and common aim of schooling is to develop individuals ‘who have skills an...
Education is the act or process of providing knowledge skills or competence by a formal course of instruction or training. Through out history societies have sought to educate their people to produce goods and services, to respond effectively and creatively to their world, and to satisfy their curiosity and aesthetic impulses. To achieve reliable knowledge and to think systematically. Over the course of human history education has appeared in many forms, both formalised and informal. Major thinkers have always recognised the educational value of intellectual exploration and of concrete experimentation. Most societies have attempted to standardise the behaviour of their members. These societies have apprenticeship systems by which the young have learned to imitate the beliefs and behaviours of a given group. Teachers have worked within schools of thought cults, monasteries and other types of organisations to shape desired convictions, knowledge and behaviour. Such philosophical and religious leaders as the Budha, Confucius, Pythagoras, Jesus, Moses, Muhammad and Karl Marx instructed their disciplines through informal education.
“Education means enabling the mind to find out that ultimate truth which emancipates us from the bondage of dust and gives us the wealth of not things but of inner light , not of power but of love, making this truth its even and giving expression to it.”