The document discusses the meaning and definitions of education from various perspectives. It explores the etymological roots of "education" in Latin and words for education in other languages like Sanskrit. Indian and Western thinkers throughout history provided definitions that viewed education as developing self-reliance, knowledge, discipline, or experiencing life. Commissions in India also studied how to define and approach education. Overall, the document examines education in broad and narrow senses, how its understanding has modernized, and how it has been conceptualized as a bipolar or tripolar process of developing the individual and society.