EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Idealism: In idealism, the aim of education is to discover and develop each individual’s abilities and full moral excellence in order to better serve society. The curricular emphasis is the subject matter of mind: literature, history, philosophy, and religion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Idealism advocates that ideas constitute what is real and permanent, i.e. ideas are the only true reality. Idealism also emphasizes the spiritual component of man, i.e., man is a spiritual being. According to this philosophy, education is the process of development of a person, his/her conscious and spiritual self.

Detailed explanation-3: -IDEALISM AND CURRICULUM While developing curriculum, idealists give more importance to thought, feelings, ideals and values than to the child and his activities. They firmly hold that curriculum should be concerned with the whole humanity and its experiences. It must consist of humanities.

Detailed explanation-4: -Idealism is the metaphysical view that associates reality to ideas in the mind rather than to material objects. It lays emphasis on the mental or spiritual components of experience, and renounces the notion of material existence.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to idealism aim of education should be related to preserve, promote and transmit culture from time to time, person to person and place to place. Moral, intellectual and aesthetic activities of man help in preserving, promoting and transmitting culture from generation to generation.