The document discusses the meaning and definitions of education from various perspectives. It explores the etymological roots of "education" in Latin and words for education in other languages like Sanskrit. Indian and Western thinkers throughout history provided definitions that viewed education as developing self-reliance, knowledge, discipline, or experiencing life. Commissions in India also studied how to define and approach education. Overall, the document examines education in broad and narrow senses, how its understanding has modernized, and how it has been conceptualized as a bipolar or tripolar process of developing the individual and society.

1. What is education?
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2. Etymological Meaning
Derived from Latin words
 Educare – to bring up or to nourish
 Educere – to lead out or to draw out
 Educatum – the act of training or
teaching
 Educo

3. Words in other Languages
 Shiksha from the Sanskrit root “shas” to
discipline, to control, to instruct
 Vidya from the Sanskrit verbal root “vid”
to know
 Gyan - knowledge
 Taleem - education

4. Synonyms of Education
 Pedagogy from Gk. “to lead a boy”
 Learning
 Knowledge
 Teaching
 Training

5. Visual Images

6. Indian Concept
 Rig Veda “Education is something which
makes a man self-reliant and selfless”
 Upanishads “Education is that whose end-
product is salvation”
 Shankaracharya “ Education is the realization
of the self”
 Kautilya “Education means training for the
country and love for the nation”

7. Indian Thinkers
 Gandhi
 Vivekananda
 Tagore
 Ghosh
 Ambedkar

8. Commissions
 Mudaliar Commission
 Kothari Commission

9. Western Concept
 Plato “ Education is the capacity to feel
pleasure and pain at the right moment”
 Aristotle “Education is the creation of a
sound mind in a sound body”
 Pestalozzi “Education is natural ,
harmonious and progressive
development of man’s innate powers”

10. Western Thinkers
 Dewey “Education is the process of
living through a continuous
reconstruction of experiences”

11. Redden’s Definition
“Education is the deliberate and systematic
influence, exerted by the mature person upon
the immature though instruction, discipline
and harmonious development of physical,
intellectual, aesthetic, social and spiritual
powers of the human being, according to
individual and social needs and directed
towards the union of the educant with his
creator at the final end”

12. Narrow and Broad
Meaning of Education

13. Modern Concept of Education

14. Bipolar to Tripolar Process