We must first deal with educational philosophy or the philosophical basis of education. Life is a composite whole, and appears to many to transcend the material elements with which the scientist per se is so deeply concerned. Further, the scientist is in pursuit of isolated facts, and cannot by the very nature of his method get in his science alone the necessary perspective to build his facts into a whole. This is the special function of philosophy. By the philosophy of education we mean the synthesis or correlation of all the knowledge and experience that in any particular may have a bearing upon human welfare in the education of the individual. A large order, to be sure, for the history of education is virtually the history of civilization itself. It is necessary to understand philosophy and philosophy of education in order to improve the educational system. In this book the two most important dimensions of education-philosophical and sociological, have been discussed in the light of philosophy and sociology.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Philosophical foundations of education. 3. Philosophy of education. 4. Education during the renaissance. 5. Reformation and quality of education. 6. Realism and education. 7. The age of reason and its impact on education. 8. Educational thought in nineteenth century Europe. 9. Twentieth century-one world and modern education. 10. World and modern education. Bibliography. Index.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.N. Sharma
Sudhindra Nath Sharma, M.Sc., FRHS, is a nature scientist with over four decades of varied experiences in the field of applied life sciences. Environmental protection, pest control operations, horticultural landscaping as well as the culture and cultivation of orchids, and other useful herbal flora of the Northeast Indian States have sustained his interest all along. After obtaining his M.Sc. degree from A.M.U. in 1951 he initially taught life sciences in Cotton College, Cuwahati, and later at the Assam Agricultural College (now University), until 1959. Here he was closely associated with some research projects and published several papers and articles. Thereafter, between 1960 and 1987, he served as a Senior Executive of the erstwhile Assam Oil Company/Burmah Oil Company Ltd., Digboi (Assam), which later became IOC Ltd. (Assam Oil Division) in 1981. Here he served in various departments like Marketing, Administration, Industrial Relations and Refinery Operations. Associated with the Horticultural and Orchid Societies of Digboi and Duliajan (Oil India) and the tea circles of the Upper Assam districts. Widely travelled abroad between 1992 and 2001, he and his wife jointly acquired adequate knowledge in USA and the UK on the culture and propagation of orchids and some useful aromatic and medicinal plants of those countries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, besides, he and his wife are also members of the Horticultural Societies of UK and India. He is presently working on another publication entitled-"Some Beautiful Orchids of Assam and other Northeast Indian States.
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