Educational Philosophy Education and Philosophy

1. Relationship between
Education and Philosophy
Dr.M.Deivam
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University)
Gandhigram, Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu 624 302

2. Relationship between Education and
Philosophy
• Education and Life are interdependent. It is
aptly remarked that without philosophy,
education would be a blind effort and without
education philosophy would be cripple.
• Philosophy is the contemplative side of life and
education is the dynamic side of life of an
individual.
• Education is the dynamic side of philosophy -
Adams

3. Cont.,
• Philosophy points out the way, and education
follows it. Education thus becomes the best
means for the promotion of philosophy. For the
good of life, for the good of the individual and
for the good of society, we need direction.
• The art of education will never aim at complete
clearness without philosophy.
• Every aspect of education is influenced by
philosophy and so the ultimate questions of
philosophy are all the basic questions of
education.

4. Cont.,
• Philosophy is the bedrock for the entire system
of education.
• Great philosophers have been greet educators
like Swami Vevekananda, Sri Aurobindo,
Rabindranath Togore, Radhakrishnan, Mahatma
Gandhi etc.
• Philosophy and Education are the two sides of
the same coin – Ross.
• The ultimate questions of education are the
questions of philosophy.

5. Scope of Philosophy
• Roman Scholar called it as the mother of all arts
and true medicine of mind.
• Francis Bacon, a great English philosopher
regarded the philosophy as “the great mother of
the Sciences”.
• Coleridge a noted poet considered it as the “
Science of Sciences”.

6. Scope of Philosophy (various Branches)
• Metaphysics
It deals with questions like
What is soul?
What is a living being?
What is the relationship between body and soul?
• Ideology
Does God exist?
If yes, what are the proofs?
What is the nature of god?

7. Cont.,
• Epistemology
What is truth?
What is doubt?
What are the sources of acquiring technology?
• Ethics
• What is good?
• What is evil?
• What is good behaviour?

8. Cont.,
• Aesthetic
What is beauty?
What is ugly?
Logic
What is nature of logical thinking?
What is the relationship of inductive and
deductive logical methods?

9. Thank You