This PPT contains various definitions of Education said by various eminent persons. This helps to UGC-NET/JRF aspirants for their preparation in Paper-1.

1. S.B.S.Younus, M.Sc.,M.Phil.,NET.,
Assistant Professor,
Sri Ram Nallamani Yadava College of
Arts and Science,
Tenkasi – 627 804,
Tamilnadu.

2. Aristotle
 “Education is the process of training man to fulfill his
aim by exercising all the faculties to the fullest extent
as a member of society”.

3. M K Gandhi
 “By education, I mean the all round drawing out of
the best in child and man-body, mind and soul”.

4. T. Raymont
 “Education is that process of development which
consists the passage of human being from infancy to
maturity, the process whereby he adapts himself
gradually in various ways to is physical and spiritual
environment”.

5. Drever
 “Education is a process in which and by which
knowledge, character and behaviour of the young are
shaped and moulded”.

6. Froebel
 “Education is a process by which the child makes the
internal external”.

7. Vivekanand
 “Education is the manifestation of perfection already
reached in man”.

8. Pestalozzi
 “Education is natural, harmonious and progressive
development of man’s innate powers”.

9. T P Nunn
 “Education is the complete development of
individuality of the child, so that he can make his
original contribution of human life according to his
best capacity”.

10. Socrates
 “Education means the bringing out of the ideas of
universal validity which are latent in the mind of
every man”.

11. R N Tagore
 “Education means to enable the child to find out
ultimate truth…making truth its own and giving
expression to it”.

12. H H Horne
 “In the broadest sense, education is a device by which
a social group continued existence renew yourself,
and defend his ideas”.

13. Question 1;
 Who said that “Material and spiritual knowledge is
already present in man covered by a curtain
ignorance” ?
 (A) Plato
 (B) Mahathma gandhi
 (C) Tagore
 (D) Vivekanamda
Answer: D

14. Question 2:
 The greatest sociologists who held the view that
education does not bring about social change,
rather the social results into an educational change’
was,
 (A) Mc Dougall
 (B) Aristotle
 (C) Durkheim
 (D) Dewey
Answer: C

15. Question 3:
 According to whom “Educational Psychology is the
science of Education” ?
 (A) Skinner
 (B) Crow and Crow
 (C) Peel
 (D) Pillsburg
Answer : C