The document outlines the general aims of education according to Dr. Maheswari Jaikumar. It discusses 13 specific aims including vocational, knowledge, complete living, harmonious development, self-realization, moral development, physical development, emotional development, chance for development, cultural development, citizenship, education for leisure, and social & individual development. The ultimate aims of education are said to be individual development, social and national development, social transformation, modernization, and acquisition of values.

1. GENERAL AIMS OF
EDUCATION
DR.MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR
maheswarijaikumar@gmail.com

2. • Education is a purposeful and
an organized activity.
• Any purposeful activity is
based upon a clear aims and
objectives.

3. • Aims of education inspire an
individual to attain the set
aim at the best.
• Without an aim any activity
lacks force and direction.

6. GENERAL AIMS-EDUCATION
• 1. VOCATIONAL AIM.
• 2. KNOWLEDGE.
• 3. COMPLETE LIVING.
• 4. HARMONIUS
DEVELOPMENT.
• 5. SELF REALIZATION.

7. • 6. MORAL DEVELOPMENT.
• 7. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
• 8. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
• 9. CHANCE FOR
DEVELOPMENT.
• 10. CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

8. • 11. CITIZENSHIP.
• 12. EDUCATION FOR LEISURE.
• 13. SOCIAL & INDIVIDUAL
AIM.

9. AIMS OF EDUCATION

10. VOCATIONAL AIM
• Education prepares an
individual to earn his livelihood.
• Education makes an individual
self confident in terms of
economic independence & for
social living.

11. KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge is power and
knowledge is essential for self
awareness, social growth,
adjustments in life and for a good
interpersonal relationship.
• Hence education aims at the
afore said.

12. COMPLETE LIVING
• Education enables an
individual to live his life in a
complete sense. Education
empowers an individual to
aptly deal with every aspect
of life.

13. HARMONIOUS
DEVELOPMENT
• Education results in the
production of a well balanced
human being. All the faculties in
a child is harmonious developed
by education. It is all round
drawing out of the best in an
individual's body, mind & spirit.

14. SELF REALIZATION
• Education helps an individual to
bloom into a person as per the
potentials that he has within
him. Self realization is
considered to be the highest aim
in the hierarchy of achievement
& self identity of an individual.

15. MORAL DEVELOPMENT
• Education enables an
individual to cultivate and
nurture moral values. It
focuses on the development
of virtues like truthfulness,
goodness, purity, courage &
honesty.

16. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
• Education also positively
contributes an individual in
his physical development. It
contributes in elevating the
standard of living of a person.

17. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Education also caters to the
emotional development of an
individual. It focuses on
values, morality and
emotional stability and results
in the exercise of excellent
judgment in life process.

18. CHANCE FOR
DEVELOPMENT
• Development of an individual
in the society is considered to
be the supreme aim.
Education enables an
individual to develop himself
in all the aspects of his life.

19. • Education caters to the
cultivation of human values
and development of attitudes
and habits which constitutes
the character of a person.

20. CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
• Education aims at, every
individual becoming cultured
and civilized. Cultural
development if attained truly
gives refinement in aesthetic
sense and a concern & respect
for others and other’s culture.

21. CITIZENSHIP
• Education aims at the
development of good citizenship.
Education aims at the
development of qualities that
are beneficial to the society. This
promotes a sense of civic
responsibility.

22. EDUCATION FOR LEISURE
• Truly educated individuals
have learned to utilize their
leisure time in performing
beneficial activities. It
benefits not only the
individual but also the society
at large.

23. SOCIAL & INDIVIDUAL AIM
• Man is a social being. Social
progress and welfare should be
the aim of every responsible
citizen.

24. • Education promotes this
ideology and ensures a
balance in the progress of
individuals and the society
simultaneously.

25. WHAT IS
THE
ULTIMATE
AIM

26. TO SUM UP…
• 1. INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT.
• 2. SOCIAL & NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT.
• 3. SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION.
• 4. MODERNIZATION.
• 5. ACQUISITION OF VALUES.
• 6. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION.
• 7. UNIVERSALIZATION.

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