Aim of Education

AIM OF
EDUCATION
Aim of Education
■ Aim of education can direct the educational activities such as making provisions for
desired education, organising teaching- learning activities, and providing learners with
learning opportunities and experience.
■ The success of the educational process can be evaluated in terms of the extent to which
the aims of education are realized by both the learners and the teachers. Aims of
education reflect the ideals, values, needs and desires of a society.
Two types of aims
1. General Aims
2. Specific Aims
General Aims:
General aims of education are those which apply in their generality to the whole of mankind.
Specific Aims:
Specific aims of education are relative to the conditions available at a particular time.
General Aims may be classified as
Individual
Aim
Social
Aim
Specific aims of education
Knowledge Aim
Vocational Aim
Moral Aim
Complete living Aim
Harmonious Development of personality aim
Aim of spending leisure time usefully

Aims of Education
General Aims Specific Aims
Individual Aims Social Aims
5. Harmonious 6. Leisure
1.Knowlegde 2.Vocational 4. The complete
3. Moral Aim development of Aim
Aim Aim Living aim
Personality
1. Individual Aim
■ Educational thinkers like Sir Percy Nunn advocate that the chief aim of education is the
unfoldment of individual personality. The progress of great nations is because of individuals.
■ Adams also states that education is the endeavour to help one for self- realisation.
■ Education is the training given for individuals to develop the characteristic potentials
inherent in each one of them.
■ Development of individuality is based on freedom.

2. Social Aim
■ Educationists like Prof. Bagley and John Dewey aim of education is to produce socially
efficient individuals.
■ An individual has no existence apart from society. A human child requires a social
medium for its development.
The goals of social aims of education
1. Good health and vitality

2. Vocational efficiency
3. Simple skills required for a hood life
4. Cooperation with other members of the family
5. Good parenthood
6. Good citizenship
7. Spending usefully one’s leisure- time.
3. Knowledge Aim
■ Knowledge aim of education gives more emphasis for the cognitive development of
human personality
■ Knowledge make a man resourceful
■ Knowledge sharpens our mind
■ Knowledge removes ignorance, dust and darkness and leads on individuals to success.
4. Vocational Aim
■ Some educationists think that education must enable the child to take some vocation in
order to earn his livelihood.
■ Education, should concentrate more on developing the hands of the individual into
productive arms than on cultivating the head and heart.
■ Vocational aim flourishes in a country which is industrialised.
5. Moral Aim
■ According to Hetbart, “ Formation of character should be regarded as the highest aim
and the teachers should develop strength of will and purity of character”.
6. The Complete Living Aim
■ Herbart Spencer, Education should enable us to treat the body, mind and soul in the right manner.
■ Education should teach us to enjoy life, to spend our leisure profitably and to behave as good citizens.
■ John Dewey says that instead of imparting knowledge to pupils, we should develop the ability to solve p
encountered in life.
7.Harmonious Development of
Personality
■ Development of all powers and capacities of an individual – physical, intellectual,
emotional, moral, aesthetic, social and spiritual.
■ Means giving equal importance for all potentials.
■ Harmonious development aim in education requires the development of all inherent

potentials in individuals blossom fully.
8. Leisure Aim
■ Education should help a person to spend his leisure time usefully.
■ Education aims get prescribed according to the place, time, societal and individual
needs.
■ According to Horne, “no single educational aim could be identified as the best. That
educational system which gives equal importance for integrates all aims of education is
undoubtedly the best”.
National Objectives of Education in
India
■ Indian Education Commission headed by Dr. D. C. Kothari, in its report (1966) has
pointed out the following as our national objectives:
1. Relating education to productivity
2. Strengthening social and national integration
3. Consolidating democracy as a form of government and helping the country to
adopt it as a way of life.
4. Accelerating the Process of modernisation
5. Building character by cultivating social, moral and spiritual values.

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Complete living Aim

Harmonious Development of personality aim

Aim of spending leisure time usefully

General Aims Specific Aims

Individual Aims Social Aims

■ Development of individuality is based on freedom.

1. Good health and vitality

■ According to Hetbart, “ Formation of character should be regarded as the highest aim

■ Means giving equal importance for all potentials.

■ Harmonious development aim in education requires the development of all inherent

■ Education should help a person to spend his leisure time usefully.

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