SIGNIFICANCE OF PHILOSOPHY EDUCATION

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SIGNIFICANCE OF PHILOSOPHY  EDUCATION
1.      Philosophy affects the aims of education.
It is the philosophy of the time, which determines whether the aim of education, should be moral, vocational, intellectual, spiritual or liberal. Rusk, therefore, says, “Every system of education must have an aim and the aims of education are related to the aims of life. Philosophy formulates what should be the end of life while education offers suggestions how this end is to be achieved.
2.      Philosophy determines the choice of studies or curriculum.
When aims are set, the next step is to find means to achieve those aims. Curriculum is the mean through which educator realizes his goal. Aims of education on the other hand are determined by philosophy. Hence, philosophy too decides why a particular subject should be included in the curriculum.
3.      Text Book
The choice of textbooks also involves philosophy. The textbooks must cater to the needs of an ideal life. So it is indisputably a fact that philosophy has its role in the choice of textbooks.
Philosophy and the choice of method.
Aims of education are subject to the philosophy of life. Methods are means through which goals of education can be realized. There are many instances, in which philosophical principles have influenced method. For example, pragmatists advocate project method. Naturalists, learning by doing and for the idealist, the school is a garden and teacher a gardener, whose main function is to tend the little human plants under his charge, very carefully, and thus helps to grow to beauty and perfection.
4.      Philosophy determines the type of discipline to be maintained.
The child is humanized by the social environment. The business of the teacher is the maintenance of discipline and to tell the students about the social norm. Students will accordingly behave. There should be any nature and form of discipline. Philosophy determines the nature and form of discipline. Whether school discipline should be strict and rigid or flexible and free is philosophical problem.
5.      Philosophy and teachers.

In the widest sense, every person has a philosophy of life and in the same way every educator has a philosophy of education. What a teacher really and truly believes shows itself in his actions and in his attitude towards life. When he is really earnest about his beliefs, he will not keep them to himself but will do all in his power to persuade others. This is the mainspring of all missionary efforts.

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