education purpose

1. Educational Thoughts Of
SRI AUROBINDO AND
MAHATMA GANDHI
KAVYA
PRADEEP
ROLL NO. 06
1st YEAR M.Ed

2. AUROBINDO
August 15, 1872 culcutta – August 15, 1947 puduchery
He was philosopher, poet, spiritual leader. Famous : integral yoga
Education is not only acquiring knowledge but also spiritual development
Self- discovery
Integral education
Teacher should be a mentor or guide
Curriculum - holistic education
Method of teaching-Experiential learning

3. "Men therefore has first of all to become ethical Sukruti and then rise
to height beyond anymore ethical rule of living to the lightness and
power of The Spiritual nature were he get beyond the grass of the
duality and its delusion dwanda moha " [ Sri Aurobindo, essay on the
gita]
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4. Main ideas of education
• Aim and Function of education
• Nature of child and principle of teaching
• Moral education
• Discipline
• Curriculum
• Teacher as a guide and helper

5. Aim and function of education
• Perfection
• Harmony
• Evolution
• Humanization
• Harmony of individual and collectivity
• Building innate power
• Cultivation of values
• Physical development and purity
• Development of senses
• Individual development
• Spiritual development

6. Contribution to education
• National and international system of education
• Child centered education
• Moral and religious as well physical education
• Education of yoga
• Education of sense
• Education through practical experience

7. What is sense education
• Six senses which provide knowledge- seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, mind
• These all are developed with a help of guide
• Important thing in sense education is accuracy and sensitiveness
• For sense education : train our mind first, then only purification of nervous
system happens.

8. Education of mind
" Nothing can be taught to the mind which is not already concealed a
potential knowledge in unfolding soul of the creative "
Ie, education means not building something new, it is creating and
developing the potentialities of the human

9. Two qualities of mind
❖Well-structured mind :
1. accuracy
2. think clearly
3. criticize judiciously
4. well informed
❖ Well textured mind : 1.self-realization

10. Curriculum design
• Knowledge should be given importance than leaning many subjects
• Importance to culture and civilization
• Importance for science and environment
• Include philosophy and logics in education
• Creativity in child

11. Different stage of education and type of
education for proper growth of learners
• Primary stage
• Secondary stage
• University stage
• Vocational education
• Physical education
• Mental education

12. Role of teacher in the scheme of education
• Teacher is main part of education system " teacher is not an instructor or task
master but helper or guide"
• Teacher should give freedom and consideration towards the student
• He is one to guide and suggest not to impose something
• He shows how to acquire knowledge than byhearting it
• Teacher should give importance to mother-tongue
• He is the one who shape the child to an individual.
• Child centered education and leaning by doing.

13. Education relevance
• Holistic development
• Self-discovery
• self-realization
• Global citizenship- sense of unity and understand the world
• Spirituality in education

14. INTEGRAL EDUCATION
• Provide a complete philosophy of life
• His views on great future- individual, social transformation, national, world
• Main aim of this is holistic development mind body and soul
• His five principle of integral education are physical, vital, mental, spiritual
education.
• There are two fold base of education: individuality in one goal and
humanity in another goal.

15. MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND
GANDHI
• Oct2,1869- Jan 30,1948
• Major political and spiritual leader
• Father of our nation
• Famous autobiography –my experiment with truth
• Throughout his life Gandhiji committed to non -violence
and truth
• Importance : self sufficiency

16. Education philosophy
Factors determining his education philosophy
1. His educational experiment at Tolstoy far, Sabarmati ashram
2. Philosophy of life: ideal life only if we get education
3. Given importance to mother tongue
4. He says that everything can be regenerated through education if it is social,
moral, political, economic.

17. "Education means an all round-
development or drawing out of
best in a child and man body
mind and spirit"
"literacy should never be end of
education nor beginning it is only
one of the means whereby man
and woman can be educated."

18. Chief Principle of New Educational
philosophy
• Free and compulsary education
• Craft centered education
• Self supporting
• Importance to mother tongue
• Education should be based on non violence

19. Was he Naturalist, Idealist, Pragmatist??
• Person who believed in all philosophies in his life .
• He advocated that children should taught on an
atmosphere of free as well there should not be any restriction or
imposing - naturalist
• Gandhiji emphasized discipline regulation and well directed life -
idealist
• He given importance to practical and spiritual values, through real life
situation of life that the child realize himself.- pragmatist

20. Aim of education
• Self realization
• Self supportive
• Moral and character formation
• All round development of the child
• Enhance cultural heritage of india
• Cultivate moral, spiritual, social , ethical and aesthetic value in the
child

21. Curriculum
• Life centered and activity centered
• Learning by doing as well earning
• Learning basic craft or skill based learning
• Importance of mother tongue
• Importance of maths, connect daily life
• Rest of all subject excluding english he given importance
• Promoted art and music subject to learn

22. Method of teaching
• Children should get basic education through craft spinning agriculture
etc
• Mother tongue should be the medium
• Relation should be there with learning experience and teaching
method
• Basic scheme : activity method or learning by doing

23. Role of teacher
• Well trained, proficient, men of sound knowledge
• Devoted and active
• Nationalistic feeling , high moral character
• Primary class: teacher should be like second mother
• Teacher should be polite, ideal and teach from life

24. Basic education or wardha scheme NAITALIM
• 1937 put forward
• Revolt against the book centred and exam oriented education which initiated by
british
• He used the term basic to describe the scheme of education because its
intimately related to basic need and interest of Indian children

25. Feature of basic education, NAITALIM
• Free and compulsary education to all from age 8-14
• Flexible curriculum and free environment
• Create useful and responsible citizen
• Medium of instruction: mother tongue
• Importance to practical and theoretical knowledge.

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