According to Aristotle aim of education is to pass of knowledge as a "fixed and unilateral conditions of the soul". It must train him in the technique of isolating the creative form. Education may not provide any clear cut principles for guidance but it may give us a sort of moral armour and also a sort of intellectual armoury.
While living in society it is necessary that the man should definitely try to adjust himself with the social code. Socially mal-adjusted people create certain problems for the society as well as for the members of the society. So Plato pointed out, "types of Government correspond to the types of human nature. States are not made from rocks and trees but from the characters of their citizens which turn the scale and draw everything after them." None can deny that the evils of the world generally originate from the bad political machinery and will not be cured till human character is improved.
According to Livingstone "funda-mentally the political problem is a problem of human character". The struggles, agonies, passions and uncertainties of the time disappear if the character of the people is very high. Similarly there are many determining factors like geography, geology, climate, economic conditions, scientific discoveries in the history of a nation but above all there is, often forgotten element of human nature, that is character.
If people do not possess intellectual qualities, wisdom, intelligence, judgement and foresight it is not possible for them to make their country a great success. Man is the real problem, the old and the modern is problem. In fact humanity changes its clothes but not its nature that is why till education does not cultivate character it becomes purposeless. According to Ruskin "Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know.It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave".
The future civilisation depends upon the improvement of human character and conduct and we should devote our energies to the construction of human nature before we make critical machinery. Bolshevism and Nazism are sometimes called new religions. Proper type of education would have definitely done a good service in breaking this superstition about these religions. No doubt, Russell in one of his essays " Functions to a teacher" points out that a teacher must try and give unbiased ideal to the pupils and should not become a tool in the hands of the politicians.
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While living in society it is necessary that the man should definitely try to adjust himself with the social code. Socially mal-adjusted people create certain problems for the society as well as for the members of the society. So Plato pointed out, "types of Government correspond to the types of human nature. States are not made from rocks and trees but from the characters of their citizens which turn the scale and draw everything after them." None can deny that the evils of the world generally originate from the bad political machinery and will not be cured till human character is improved.
According to Livingstone "funda-mentally the political problem is a problem of human character". The struggles, agonies, passions and uncertainties of the time disappear if the character of the people is very high. Similarly there are many determining factors like geography, geology, climate, economic conditions, scientific discoveries in the history of a nation but above all there is, often forgotten element of human nature, that is character.
If people do not possess intellectual qualities, wisdom, intelligence, judgement and foresight it is not possible for them to make their country a great success. Man is the real problem, the old and the modern is problem. In fact humanity changes its clothes but not its nature that is why till education does not cultivate character it becomes purposeless. According to Ruskin "Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know.It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave".
The future civilisation depends upon the improvement of human character and conduct and we should devote our energies to the construction of human nature before we make critical machinery. Bolshevism and Nazism are sometimes called new religions. Proper type of education would have definitely done a good service in breaking this superstition about these religions. No doubt, Russell in one of his essays " Functions to a teacher" points out that a teacher must try and give unbiased ideal to the pupils and should not become a tool in the hands of the politicians.
[ Part 1 ] [ Part 3 ] [ Part 4 ]
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