MEANING OF EDUCATION
Rig Veda -
“Education has been understood as something which makes a man self-reliant and selfless”
Kautilya -
“Education means training for the country and love for the nation”
Swami Vivekananda -
“Education is the manifestation of divine perfection already existing in man”
Mahatma Gandhi -
“By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man, body, mind and spirit”
Plato -
“Education is the capacity to feel pleasure and pain at the right moment. It develops in the body and in the soul of the pupil all the beauty and all the perfection which he is capable of”
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”
Rousseau -
“Education means the natural development of humanity. The aim of education is to produce a natural man, free from the artificialities of human society”
Froebel -
“Education is unfoldment of what is already enfolded in the germ. It is the process through which the child makes internal, external”
John Dewey -
“Education is the development of all those capabilities in the individual which will enable him to control his environment and fulfil his possibilities”
Development of natural abilities
Character building
Development of personality
Preparation for adult life
Control and fulfilment of basic instincts
Sublimation of human instincts
Creation of useful citizens
Development of sense of community
Protection through culture and civilization
National development
Use of leisure
Increase of consciousness of other culture
Improvement in emotional unity
Development of an international feeling
INTERACTIVE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
Influence of society on education
-Influence of social structure and ideals
-Influence of political condition
-Influence of economic condition
-Influence of religious condition
-Influence of social thought
-Influence of social changes
Influence of education on society
-Preservation and transmission of our social, moral, and cultural values
-Awakening of social feelings
-Political development of society
-Economic development of society
-Social changes and reforms
-Socialization of a child
FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION
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