Education aims for the harmonious development of students' physical, intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic abilities. It seeks to develop good character and citizenship skills to allow students to successfully face the future and control their environment. Nursing education specifically plans instruction and discipline to develop these abilities in order to provide professional nursing care to patients of all ages and health situations.

2.  The word education is derived from the latin
word ‘educare’ which means ‘to lead out’.
According to this derivation, education is the
bringing up of a child in a desirable manner.
 The idea of education is not mearly to impart
knowledge to the pupil in some subjects but
to develop in him those habits and attitudes
with which he may successfully face the
future.

3.  According to Pastalozzi, “education is the
natural, harmonious and progressive
development of man’s innate powers”.
 According to Mahatma Gandhi “education is
the all-round drawing out of the best in child
and man-body, mind and spirit.”
 According to John Dewey, “ education is the
development of all those capacities in the
individual which will enable him to control his
environment and fullfill his possibilities”.

4.  Herbert Spencer makes the aim of education
more specific by stating that the education is
a preparation for complete living.
1. Utilitarian aim
2. Vocational aim
3. Social aim
4. Intellectual aim
5. Citizenship

5. 6. Physical health and wellbeing
7. Character development
8. Moral development
9. Cultural development
10. Education for leisure
11. Self-realization
12. Mental and emotional development
13. Autonomous development
14. Self – education aim
15. International understanding
16. Harmonious development

6.  Philosophers and educationists propose the
following functions of education.
1. To complete the socialisation process
2. To transmit the cultural heritage
3. Formation of social personality
4. Reformation of attitude
5. Education for occupational placement – an
instrument of livelihood.
6. Conferring of status
7. Education encourages the spirit of
competition

7. 8. Education trains in skills that are required
by the economy.
9. Fosters participant democracy
10. Education imparts values
11. Education act as an integrative force
12. Values and orientation which are specific to
certain professions are also provided by
education

8.  Nursing education is a professional education
which is consciously and systematically
planned and implemented through
instructions and discipline and aims the
harmonious development of the physical,
intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual and
aesthetic powers or abilities of the student in
order to render professional nursing care to
people of all ages, in all phases of health and
illness, in a variety of settings, in the best or
highest possible manner

9.  Harmonious development
 Inculcating the right attitude
 Knowledge and skill aim
 Emphasis on high-tech-high-touch approach
 Prepare students to take up a proactive role in
learning
 Professional development
 Assist to build a promising career
 Social aim
 Citizenship
 To prepare global nurse
 Leadership aim

10.  MEANING
 The word “philosophy” has been derived from
two Greek words “Philos” and “Sophia”. Philos
means “ love of” and Sophia means “wisdom”.
 Philosophy is search for wisdom and truth.

11.  According to Brightman, “philosophy is an
attempt to think truly about human
experience or to make out whole experience
intelligible”.
 Henderson says that philosophy is a search
for comprehensive view of nature , an
attempt at a universal explanation of nature
of things.

12.  Philosophy is the “science of knowledge” and
knowledge is the “antidote to ignorance”.
 Philosophy is the “mother of all arts” provides
the prerequisites required to formulate the
objectives of education.
 Education without philosophy is blind and
philosophy is blind and philosophy without
education is meaningless.
 Philosophy deals with the abstract actions of
life and education deals with the active action
of life

13.  A sound philosophy of education is based on
an adequate philosophy of life. Philosophy
serves as the source of objectives required by
education. Education and philosophy
reciprocate each other. Different
philosophers, based on their view regarding
the life, developed different types of
educational philosophies namely idealism,
naturalism, pragmatism, realism, eclectics
etc.

14.  The philosophy has influenced in the cardinal
areas of education like,
 Philosophy and aims of education
 Philosophy and curriculum
 Philosophy and methods of teaching
 Philosophy and teacher
 Philosophy and discipline