GENERAL AIMS OF EDUCATION

GENERAL AIMS OF EDUCATION

1. GENERAL AIMS OF EDUCATION DR.MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR [email protected]

2. Education is a purposeful and an organized activity. Any purposeful activity is based upon a clear aims and objectives.

3. Aims of education inspire an individual to attain the set aim at the best. Without an aim any activity lacks force and direction.

4. GENERAL AIMS-EDUCATION 1. VOCATIONAL AIM. 2. KNOWLEDGE. 3. COMPLETE LIVING. 4. HARMONIUS DEVELOPMENT. 5. SELF REALIZATION.

5. 6. MORAL DEVELOPMENT. 7. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. 8. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 9. CHANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT. 10. CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

6. 11. CITIZENSHIP. 12. EDUCATION FOR LEISURE. 13. SOCIAL & INDIVIDUAL AIM.

7. AIMS OF EDUCATION

8. VOCATIONAL AIM Education prepares an individual to earn his livelihood. Education makes an individual self confident in terms of economic independence & for social living.

9. KNOWLEDGE Knowledge is power and knowledge is essential for self awareness, social growth, adjustments in life and for a good interpersonal relationship. Hence education aims at the afore said.

10. COMPLETE LIVING Education enables an individual to live his life in a complete sense. Education empowers an individual to aptly deal with every aspect of life.

11. HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT Education results in the production of a well balanced human being. All the faculties in a child is harmonious developed by education. It is all round drawing out of the best in an individual's body, mind & spirit.

12. SELF REALIZATION Education helps an individual to bloom into a person as per the potentials that he has within him. Self realization is considered to be the highest aim in the hierarchy of achievement & self identity of an individual.

13. MORAL DEVELOPMENT Education enables an individual to cultivate and nurture moral values. It focuses on the development of virtues like truthfulness, goodness, purity, courage & honesty.

14. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT Education also positively contributes an individual in his physical development. It contributes in elevating the standard of living of a person.

15. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT Education also caters to the emotional development of an individual. It focuses on values, morality and emotional stability and results in the exercise of excellent judgment in life process.

16. CHANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT Development of an individual in the society is considered to be the supreme aim. Education enables an individual to develop himself in all the aspects of his life.

17. Education caters to the cultivation of human values and development of attitudes and habits which constitutes the character of a person.

18. CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Education aims at, every individual becoming cultured and civilized. Cultural development if attained truly gives refinement in aesthetic sense and a concern & respect for others and other’s culture.

19. CITIZENSHIP Education aims at the development of good citizenship. Education aims at the development of qualities that are beneficial to the society. This promotes a sense of civic responsibility.

20. EDUCATION FOR LEISURE Truly educated individuals have learned to utilize their leisure time in performing beneficial activities. It benefits not only the individual but also the society at large.

21. SOCIAL & INDIVIDUAL AIM Man is a social being. Social progress and welfare should be the aim of every responsible citizen.

22. Education promotes this ideology and ensures a balance in the progress of individuals and the society simultaneously.

23. WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE AIM

24. TO SUM UP… 1. INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT. 2. SOCIAL & NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 3. SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION. 4. MODERNIZATION. 5. ACQUISITION OF VALUES. 6. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION. 7. UNIVERSALIZATION.

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