What is Education? | Abdul Basit

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What is Meaning of Education?


Etymologically, the word education is derived from educare (Latin) "bring up", which is related to educere "bring out", "bring forth what is within", "bring out potential" and ducere, "to lead".
Webster defines education as the process of educating or teaching (now that's really useful, isn't it?)
Educate is further defined as "to develop the knowledge, skill, or character of..." Thus, from these definitions, we might assume that the purpose of education is to develop the knowledge, skill, or character of students.
In ancient Greece, Socrates argued that education was about drawing out what was already within the student. (As many of you know, the word education comes from the Latin e-ducere meaning "to lead out.")
At the same time, the Sophists, a group of itinerant teachers, promised to give students the necessary knowledge and skills to gain positions with the city-state. Thus we see that there are different views and understandings of the meaning of the term education.
In the modern times it has acquired two different shades of meaning namely: an institutional instruction, given to students in school colleges formally; and a pedagogical science, studied by the student of education.



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