WISDOM OR WISE
PHILOSOPHY IS LOVE OF WISDOM
HOW
PHILOSOPHY
of Education
deals
with…..
Children
should be
educated
WHAT
They should
be educated
in
WHERE
the
ultimate
purposes
of
educatio
n should
be for
society
Authors and Experts defined PHILOSOPHY as;
• The guest for the truth based on logical
reasoning aside from factual observation of
natures multifarious phenomena.
• Its purpose is to seek and prove the ultimate
and absolute truth and for this, it is considered
as….
THE MOTHER OF ALL SCIENCES
The Purpose of Philosophy is to identify problems
and suggest ways of handling these problems.
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
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Is perceived as personal effort to arrive at solutions for
educational, problems based upon the experience of
the thinker’s resolve issues.
Majority of the educational thinkers assert that
educational philosophy is that disciplines which apply
the finding of philosophy to educational problems.
This position assumes that the problems of education
have ROOTS in philosophical positions relative to the
nature of man and the universe, the problem of truth
and knowledge and the question of values.
Philosophy establishes fundamental principles
Education carries out these principles
guide
Learning through the
incorporation of
traditions
Shapes man’s
principle for
fulfillment
PHILOSOPHY
Provides the aims in life
While
EDUCATION
Helps in realizing these aims
So, both Philosophy and Education spouse
theory and practice.
The absence of one will make a man
insufficient and aimless.
IMPLICATION
PHILISOPHY serves as a good preparation for careers in law,
management, medicine, government, administration,
educational research and other social science disciplines in
any four-year institution and graduate school because we
offer a wide selection of philosophy courses.
Though a philosophy major may not prepare you for any
specific area of employment, nevertheless, it will provide you
with a solid foundation of other areas of academic pursuit.
Above all, it will help you develop a critical and philosophical
outlook that will endure throughout your academic
advancement.
As to Educations, Philosophy has taught man
on how to understand and explain things on
reasons
Philosophy of Education: refers to the aimes
and objectives towards which the
educational system and practices are
directed..
Experts view is given below:
• John Dewey. “Philosophy may be defined as the theory of
education in its most general phase”.
• Spencer. “True education is practicable only to true
philosophers”.
• Gentile. “Education without philosophy would mean a
failure to understand the precise nature of education”.
• Dewey. “Education is a laboratory in which philosophical
distinctions become concrete and are tested”.
• Fichte. “The aim of education will never attain complete
clearness without philosophy”.
From the given statements and views we can easily maintain
that philosophy and education are closely interrelated.
Philosophy and Education-Their Interdependence
• Philosophy and education are closely interrelated.
• Education is application of philosophy or philosophy of education is
applied philosophy.
• It is the application of philosophy to study of the problem of education
that is know as philosophy of education.
• According to Ross, “Philosophy and education are like the sides of a
coin, presenting different views of the same thing, and that one is
implied by the other”.
• Education is the strongest instrument for the realization of the ideals of
life and a civilized attempt to bring about the desired development of
human personality.
• This indicates the fact that plant of education draws its nourishment
from the soil of philosophy.
• Philosophy answers all the ultimate questions of education.