Education Facts

Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, research, or simply through auto didacticism Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts. Etymologically, the word "education" is derived from the Latin ēducātiō (“A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing") from ēdūcō (“I educate, I train”) which is related to the homonym ēdūcō (“I lead forth, I take out; I rise up, I erect”) from ē- (“from, out of”) and dūcō (“I lead, I conduct”).
Definitions of Education:
The Concepts of Education as given by prominent Indian educationists are as follows.
1. Rigved: "Education is something which makes man self-reliant and selfless".
2. Upanishad: "Education is for liberation".
3. Bhagavad Gita: "Nothing is more purifying on earth than wisdom."
4. Shankaracharya: "Education is the realization of self'.
5. Gunrunner: "Education is self realization and service to people".
6. Kautilya: "Education means training of the country and love of the nation".
7. Panini: "Human education means the training which one gets from nature".
8. Vivekanand: “Education is the manifestation of the divine perfection, already existing in man."
9. Gandhi: "By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the Child and man body, mind and spirit."
10. Tagore: "The widest road leading to the solution of all our problems is education."
11. Sri Aurobindo: "Education which will offer the tools whereby one can live for the divine, for the country, for oneself and for others and this must be the ideal of every school which calls itself national".
Concepts of Education as defined by Western philosophers.
1. Socrates: "Education means the bringing out of the ideas of universal validity which are latent in the mind of every man".
2. Plato: "Education is the capacity to feel pleasure and pain