What Is Education

What Is Education

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  What is education?~ www.edusparx.com
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  Etymological Meaning Derivedfrom Latin words Educare – to bring up or to nourish Educere – to lead out or to draw out Educatum – the act of training or teaching Educo
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  Words in otherLanguages Shiksha from the Sanskrit root “shas” to discipline, to control, to instruct Vidya from the Sanskrit verbal root “vid” to know Gyan - knowledge Taleem - education
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  Synonyms of EducationPedagogy from Gk. “to lead a boy” Learning Knowledge Teaching Training
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  Indian Concept RigVeda “Education is something which makes a man self-reliant and selfless” Upanishads “Education is that whose end-product is salvation” Shankaracharya “ Education is the realization of the self” Kautilya “Education means training for the country and love for the nation”
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  Indian Thinkers GandhiVivekananda Tagore Ghosh Ambedkar
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  Commissions Mudaliar CommissionKothari Commission
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  Western Concept Plato“ Education is the capacity to feel pleasure and pain at the right moment” Aristotle “Education is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body” Pestalozzi “Education is natural , harmonious and progressive development of man’s innate powers”
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  Western Thinkers Dewey“Education is the process of living through a continuous reconstruction of experiences”
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  Redden’s Definition “Education is the deliberate and systematic influence, exerted by the mature person upon the immature though instruction, discipline and harmonious development of physical, intellectual, aesthetic, social and spiritual powers of the human being, according to individual and social needs and directed towards the union of the educant with his creator at the final end”
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  Narrow and Broad Meaning of Education
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  Modern Concept ofEducation
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