Asian Journal of Development Matters
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

Aims and Objectives of Education as the Fostering of Natural Human Development

  • Author:
  • Moslem Cherabin, Dr.K.B Praveena
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 103 to 105

D.O.S. in Education, University of Mysore

Abstract

The aim of education is of two aspects: (i) Development of the individual in society and (ii) Consequent development of the society. In a class society, the power elite necessarily determine what education will be, and therefore its objectives. The objectives will certainly not be opposed to their interests. As we have already said, it would be supremely naive to imagine that the elite would in any way promote or accept an education which stimulated the oppressed to discover the reason of the social structure. The aim of education is to cultivate personality integration and creative intelligence: Education as the fostering of natural human development, Growth in freedom