1. PAPER-I
PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
TOPIC-“EDUCATION WITHOUT PHILOSOPHY IS
BLIND,PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT EDUCATION IS
LAME”COMMENT.
BY
SANA FATIMA
M.ED (SEM-I) 2018-20
GHULAM AHMED COLLEGE OF EDUCATION,
BANJARA HILLS, HYD.
OSMANIA UNIVERSITY

2. ”Education without philosophy is blind, philosophy without education is lame”
comment.
EDUCATION:
 The word "education" is derived from the Latin word ēducātiō ("A breeding, a bringing
up, a rearing") from ēducō ("I educate, I train")
 Education is the process offacilitating learning, or the acquisition
of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.
 Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and
directed research.
 Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators and also learners may
also themselves. Education can take place in formal or informal settings and
any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be
considered educational. The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy
 Formal education is commonly divided formally into such stages
as preschool or kindergarten, primary school, secondary schooland
then college, university, or apprenticeship.
PHILOSOPHY:
 The word philosophy literally means love of wisdom; it is derived from two Greek words
i.e. 'phileo' (love) and 'Sophia' (wisdom).
 Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as
existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. The term was probably
coined by Pythagoras
 Philosophy is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental
truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world
and to each other. As an academic discipline philosophy is much the same. Thosewho
study philosophy are perpetually engaged in asking, answering, and arguing for their
answers to life’s most basic questions. To make such a pursuit more systematic academic
philosophy is traditionally divided into major areas of study.
 Metaphysics:
 At its corethe study of metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality, of what exists in
the world, what it is like, and how it is ordered. Metaphysics includes cosmology, the
study of the world in its entirety and ontology, the study of being. In metaphysics
philosophers wrestle with suchquestions as:
 Is there a God?

3.  What is truth?
 What is a person? What makes a person the same through time?
 Is the world strictly composed ofmatter?
 Do people have minds? If so, how is the mind related to the body?
 Do people have free wills?
 What is it for one event to cause another?
 Epistemology:
 Epistemology is the study of knowledge. It is primarily concerned with what we can
know about the world and how we can know it. Typical questions of concernin
epistemology are:
 What is knowledge?
 Do we know anything at all?
 How do we know what we know?
 Can we be justified in claiming to know certain things?
 Ethics:
 The study of ethics often concerns what we ought to do and what it would be best to do.
In struggling with this issue, larger questions about what is good and right arise. So, the
ethicist attempts to answer such questions as:
 What is good? What makes actions or people good?
 What is right? What makes actions right?
 Is morality objective or subjective?
 How should I treat others?
 Logic:
 Another important aspectof the study of philosophy is the arguments or reasons given for
people’s answers to these questions. To this end philosophers employ logic to study the
nature and structure of arguments. Logicians ask such questions as:
 What constitutes "good" or"bad" reasoning?
 How do we determine whether a given piece of reasoning is good or bad?
Relationship between philosophy and education:
Philosophy of education performs various functions. They are:
a] Determining the aims of education:
Philosophy of education provides original ideas regarding all aspects of education particularly
educational aims. It is said that educational philosophy gives different views, but this situation
is not harmful, rather it helps in providing education according to the need of society. The

4. difference in view of philosophy of education reflects the multiplicity and diversities of human
life. Philosophy of education guides the process ofeducation by suggesting suitable aims from
the diversities of life and selecting the means accordingly.
b] Harmonizing old and new traditions in the field of education
In the process ofsocial development the old traditions become outdated for the people. They are
replaced by the new traditions. But this process ofreplacement is not always smooth. It is faced
with lots of opposition from certain orthodoxsections of the society. At the same time it must
be kept in mind that every 'old' is not outdated and every 'new' is not perfect Therefore, there is
a need of co-coordinating the two in order to maintain the harmony between both. This function
can be performed by philosophy of education.
c] Providing the educationalplanners, administrators and educators with the progressive
vision to achieve educationaldevelopment:-
Spencer has rightly pointed that only a true philosopher can give a practical shape to education.
Philosophy of education provides the educational planners, administrators and educators with
the right vision which guides them to attain the educational goals efficiently.
d] Preparing the young generationto face the challenges ofthe modern time:-
Social commentators have given many labels to the present period of history for some it is the
information age and for others it is postmodernity, later modernity, high modernity or even the
age of uncertainty. One more addition to this list may be that 'present age is an age of
Globalization as a phenomenon arrived on the economic scene in the 1990 in India. This
watchword has had its implications in the social political, economic fabric of the country of
which education is a part. Philosophy of education is a guiding, steering and liberating force
that helps young people to and society at large to face the challenges of the modern time.
REFERENCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education
http://results.mu.ac.in/myweb_test/MA%20Education-Philosophy/Chapter-1.pdf