Definitions of Education

1. Definitions of Education
Presentation by
Vidhya v s

2. Derivative meaning of education
In its derivative sense, the term education may be understood as
‘Educare' or ‘Educere’
1) Educare
• Educare is a Latin word and it means ‘to nourish', 'to bring up', 'to
raise'. This means, educating a child means nourishing or bringing up
the child according to certain ends or aims.
2) Educere
• Educere is also a Latin word and it means, 'to lead out' or 'to draw
out'. This means, educating a child implies drawing out what is
ingrained in the child or leading him out of darkness into light.

3. Meaning of education as understood by
Indian thinkers
• Ancient Indian thinkers took an idealistic or spiritual view of
education. Modern Indian thinkers have regarded education more from
the practical point of view than the idealistic one.
• Ancient thinkers
• Modern thinkers

4. Ancient thinkers
1) Upanishads
• In upanishads "Education has been understood as something the end
product of which is salvation".
2) Shankaracharya
• “Education as the realisation of the self”.
3) Kautilya
"Education means training for the country and love for the nation".

5. Modern thinkers
1) Swami Vivekananda
• “Education is the manifestation of divine perfection
already existing in man".
2) Mahatma Gandhi
• "By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best
in child and man, body, mind and spirit".
3) Aurobindo
• "Education means helping the growing soul to draw out
that is in itself.”

6. Meaning of education as understood by
Western thinkers
• Western interpretation of the term education has been
changing from time to time. But fact remains that modern
concept of education owes much to Western thinkers.
• Thinkers of the past
• Modern thinkers

7. Thinkers of the past
1) 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".
2) 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".

8. Modern thinkers
1) Pestalozzi
• "Education is the natural, harmonious and progressive development of
man's innate powers".
2) John Dewey
• "Education is the development of all those capabilities in the individual
which will enable him to control his environment and fulfil his
possibilities".

9. THANK YOU
BY
VIDHYA V S