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Narrow meaning of Education

2. DEFINITION

» Education is the process of facilitating learning,
or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values,
morals, beliefs and habits.

» Educational methods include teaching, training,
storytelling, discussion and directed research.

+ The methodology of teaching is called Pedagogy.

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3. Some definitions of Education :

Rig Veda : “Education is something which
makes man self-reliant and selfless.”

Upanishad : “Education is for liberation”

Bhagavad-Gita : “Nothing is more purifying
on earth than wisdom.”

Shankaracharya : “Education is the realization
of self.”

Vivekananda : "Education is the manifestation
of the divine perfection, already existing in man.”

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4. MEANING

» The root of word education is derived from Latin
word Educare, Educere and Educatum.
Educare - to nourish, to bring up
Educere - to lead froth, to draw out
The Latin word Educatum is composed of two
terms, E and Duco
E - a movement from inward to outward.
Duco - developing or progressing

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5. » Words in other Language :

Shiksha - Shiksha is a word from the
sanskrit root. Shah means to control or to
discipline.

Vidya - Vidya is a word from the sanskrit
verbal root. Vidh means to know.

Gyan - Knowledge.

Taleem - Education.

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6. CONCEPT OF EDUCATION

» Education is the art of developing and
enhancing the cultivation of various physical,
mental and moral powers of the child.

» Through Education the inner capacities and
potentialities of the pupil are developed and
bought to light.

» Hence, education is a continuous process
from the womb to the tomb.

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7. MODERN CONCEPT OF EDUCATION

» Modern concept of education is leaarner-
centered.

» Modern concept of education means to
develop the inherent capacities of the learner
in the social environment in the best possible
manner.

» The old curriculum was subject centered
whereas the modern concept of curriculum is
activity centered because it emphasises
development of total personality.

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8. » INDIAN CONCEPT OF EDUCATION :

» Tagore : “ Education means enabling the mind to
find out that ultimate truth which emancipates us
from the bondage of the dust and gives us the
wealth, not of things but of inner light, not of
power but of love, making this truth its own and
giving expression to it.”

Zakir Hussain : “Education is the process of the
individual mind getting to its full possible
development...It is a long school which lasts a
life time.”

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9. WESTERN CONCEPT OF EDUCATION :

Adams : “Education is a conscious and deliberate

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process in which one’s personality acts upon
another in order to modify the development that
other by the communication and manipulation of
knowledge.”

Comenius : “All those who are born as human
beings need education because they are destined
to be real man, not wild beasts, dull animals and
clumps of wood.”

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10. NARROW CONCEPT OF EDUCATION :

S.S.Mackenzie : “In narrow sense, education May
be taken to mean any consciously directed effort
to develop and cultivate our powers.”

Education is limited to schooling only.

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Starts with students entry in school and ends

with instruction completion.

It is confined with classroom teaching in which

text books be all and end of instruction.

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11. » BROADER CONCEPT OF EDUCATION :

» John Dewey : “Education in its broadest sense, is the
means of the social continuity.”

» Education is a lifelong process.

Education goes beyond schooling and instruction.

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» It starts from birth and goes throughout life.

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Experiences are the touchstone of education in wider
activities.
» Contents are based on overall learning experiences of
students.

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