This presentation is for the students of B.ed(1.5 years) students as well as B.s Education students

1. MEANING
&
Definition OF EDUCATION

2. INTRODUCTION
It is very difficult to give one definite meaning of the term
‘Education’. Different philosophers, educationists, thinkers,
statesmen, politician artisans and priests will give widely
different definitions of education according to their own outlook
on their life and according to the circumstances they have been
facing.
The reason is that it is an abstract entity and its concept is
dynamic. It is a continuous process of evolution and at every
stage it had a different meaning according to conditions, then
prevailing. Education deals with every-growing man in ever-
growing society. Its concept, Therefore, can never be static. It
must continue to grow and change.

3. The word ‘education’, is derived from
the following Latin Words:
Word(s) from which
derived
Meaning of the word
(a) Educatum To train, or act of teaching or
training.
(b) Educere To lead out, to draw out
(c) Educare To mould/to bring up, to raise, to
educate.

4. WESTERN CONCEPT OF EDUCATION
According to Aristotle, “Education is the creation of
a sound mind in a sound body… it develops man’s
faculty, especially his mind so that he may be able
to enjoy the contemplation of supreme ‘truth,
goodness and beauty’ of which perfect happiness
essentially consists.”
According to Spencer, “Education is complete
living.”
According to John Dewey, “Education is the process
of living through a continuous reconstruction of
experiences. It is the development of all those
capacities in the individual which will enable him
to control his environment and fulfill his
possibilities.”

5. BROADER MEANING OF EDUCATION
In the broader sense, education means the process of
development from ‘infancy to maturity’. It begins at birth and
continues throughout the life, till death; from ‘Womb to tomb’
as they call it. It includes all the knowledge and experiences
acquired during infancy, childhood adolescence, youth,
manhood or old age, through any agency of education i.e. the
school, home church, society etc. In this way ones whole life
activities become the real source of education. The education
becomes sum total of all experiences that the child receives
inside the school or outside, through the study of different
subjects, through various activities, through the library, the
playground, the workshop or through other agencies. So
education is life and life itself is education. Education is
nothing but experiences of life. It starts in the cradle and ends
in the grave.

6. Education in the wider sense has also been emphasized
International Commission on Development of Education
(UNESCO). In their report ‘Learning to Be’, they have given
the concept of ‘Life Long Education’ by saying… human
beings keep on learning and training themselves throughout
their lives, above all through the influence of surrounding
environment and through the experience which mould their
behavior, their conceptions of life and the content of their
knowledge.

7. NARROWER MEANING OF
EDUCATION
In its narrower or relatively restricted meaning, the term education is applied
to whatever taught in school or university system of education. It refers to
whatever knowledge is made available to an individual at a specific time,
in a specific place (school, colleges etc.), according to a specific
curriculum and specific time-table, and by a particular team of teachers. It
has a limited field and it primarily emphasizes the intellectual
development of the student. This type of education is formal, intentional
and consciously organized by the institution. Students need to pass a pre-
conceived set of examination patterns through the organized way.
The knowledge imparted by this method is primarily theoretical, based on
information derived from text books, which only constitutes cognitive
domain of human behavior. It does not take into account the all round
development of the student’s personality and other domain of human
behaviors.

8. DEFINITIONS
OF PHILOSOPHY
ETYMOLOGY:
• English = Philosophie,
• Old French =Philosophia,
• Greek = Philosophi,
• Arab = Falsafah

9. MORE
ABOUT PHILOSOPHY
• Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual
means and moral self-discipline.
• Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles
of reality, knowledge, or values, based on
logical reasoning rather than empirical
methods.

10. MORE AND MORE
ABOUT PHILOSOPHY
• The critical analysis of fundamental
assumptions or beliefs.
• The disciplines presented in university
curriculum of science and the liberal arts,
except medicine, law, and theology.

11. Philosophers are motivated by specific questions
such as:
• What is truth?
• How or why do we identify a statement as
correct or false, and how do we reason?
• What is wisdom?
HOW DO WE PHILOSOPHIZE ?