EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
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Social aims
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Cultural aims
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Individual aims
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A synthesis of individual and social aims
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tagore’s individualism is well known. He firmly believed that the chief aim of education should be the drawing out of all the latent faculties of the child. To him, the child is more important than all kinds of books, rules, and teachers.
Detailed explanation-2: -He believed that too many restrictions would make the education joyless. The child can give expression to his joy through play. He can invent things with the help of material at hand. Student-teacher relationships: Tagore emphasized on student-teacher interaction.
Detailed explanation-3: -(d) Intellectual development aim. 307. Who said that the aim of education should be to develop in children feelings of international brotherhood and attitude of international understanding? (d) Dewey.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tagore also greatly emphasised the intellectual development of the child. By intellectual development he means development of imagination, creative free thinking, constant curiosity and alertness of the mind. Children must be free to adopt their own ways of learning which would lead to all round development.