THE GENERAL AIMS OF EDUCATION

The business of educating man is definitely rooted in the general aims of education.

The function of the educative process is to shape a particular individual belonging to a given nation, a given social structure, a given historical age.

Education

Process by means of which man is shaped and brought toward fulfilment

The task of formation which adults intentionally undertake with regard to youth

Education

The special task of schools and universities

Education

Education is vital knowledge and skills that we

learned what we remember after we

forgot everything that we learned

involves transfer of values from one generation to the next

Education is about what we think, what we

believe, how we should live, what we value, what we believe is right and wrong

life long search for truth defines what kind of person we

are and what we will become

Seven Misconceptions of Education

A fallacy is an error of reasoning. These are flawed statements that often sound true

False philosophy

Fallacy

The Fallacy of the Disregard of Human Ends

Education is an art. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and purist, is thought to aimat some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Inadvertent disregard for or lack of clear, well-defined ends.

It is a case of process for the sake of process.

The Fallacy of Ideas Concerning the End

If the aim of education is helping and guiding man toward his own human achievement, then education can not escape what constitutes the philosophy of man, and from the outset, it is obliged to answer the question: “What is a man?”

The scientific idea of man tends only to connect measurable and observable data.

The philosophical idea of man is an ontological idea. It is not entirely verifiable in sense-experience.

If we tried to build education solely on the basis of the scientific idea of man and carry it out accordingly, we distort or warp the idea of man.

The Fallacy of Pragmatism

It is incorrect to view human thought as merely a response to the stimuli in environment, that is to say, to define it in terms no more than animal learning and reaction.

The Fallacy of Pragmatism

Human thought is knowledge, and thinking begins, not only with difficulties, but also with insights, and ends up with what is true.

Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that impractical ideas are to be rejected. It kills the idea of dreams and ensures control to manic levels while ensuring realism and enabling accurate planning and subsequent execution.

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