EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The philosopher who for the first time mentioned the importance of play (or sports) in education was ? The philosopher who for the first time mentioned the importance of play (or sports) in education was Aristotle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aristotle believed the purpose of school was to develop and exercise students’ potential for reasoning, form ethical character, and provide a skill and knowledge base. He thought the purpose of schooling was to develop dispositions and habits that exercise reason and forming a human’s ethos.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Plato’s view, good sport is the sport directed toward the fulfillment of self, all the way to the ideal – the idea itself. And only sport like that can bring true contentment to the human – the reasonable being. With this sport is essentially intervening in the sphere of philosophical cognition.

Detailed explanation-4: -He made pioneering contributions to all fields of philosophy and science, he invented the field of formal logic, and he identified the various scientific disciplines and explored their relationships to each other. Aristotle was also a teacher and founded his own school in Athens, known as the Lyceum.