Educational Thought

The educational thought of all the great thinkers of modern times have been brought together in the present publication, in an attempt to provide the student as well as teacher, the researcher and the academician with a comprehensive profile of the most significant contributions in the area of education. The reader will find in the following pages the thoughts, observations, interpretations and world-views of the most distinguished of educational thinkers-Rousseau, Dewey, Froebel and Montessori, among the Western tradition, and in the Indian context, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Tagore, Radhakrishnan, Zakir Hussain and Mahatma Gandhi. A special feature of the book is the analysis of philosophical content of the thoughts and their significant implications for education in practice. The institutions proposed and even established by these eminent personages have been described in detail in order to underscore the path of development of educational system has followed in various traditions.