Definitions of Education

MEANING OF EDUCATION

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Word Education is arise from Latin language word educere which means to bring out .

EDUCATION ----> EDUCERE = BRING OUT

Concepts of Education as defined by Western philosophers.

1. Socrates:

"Education means the bringing out of the ideas of universal validity which are latent in the mind of every man".

2. 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."

3. 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.

4. Rousseau:

"Education of man commences at his birth; before he can speak, before he can understand he is already instructed. Experience is the forerunner of the perfect".

5. Herbert Spencer: 

"Education is complete living". (ugc net - june , 2010)

6. Heinrich Pestalozzi:

"Education is natural harmonious and progressive development of man's innate powers".

7. Friedrich Willian Froebel: 

"Education is unfoldment of what is already enfolded in the germ. It is the process through which the child makes internal external".