Tuesday 6 August 2013

9 DEFINITION OF EDUCATION BY SOME PROFESSOR

1. Dewey (1916) viewed education as the ''continuous reconstruction or reorganization of experience which adds to the meaning of experience, and which increase the ability to direct course of subsequent experience.

2. Yoloye (1980) define education as weapon for combating ignorance, poverty and disease: as a bridge between confusion and comprehension, As dam for concerning man's store of civilization, as a rocket for transporting man from a state of intellectual subservience to a state of intellectual sovereignty.

3. Fafunwa (1980) described education as a process of transmitting culture in terms of continuity and growth and for dissemination knowledge either to ensure social control or to guarantee rational direction of society

4. Longman Dictionary of contemporary English define education as the knowledge and skill that you gain from being taught.

5. Walter define eduction as the development of the physical mental and spiritual capacities of the individual to enable him grow accordingly and to be of service to his people.

6 R.S peter also define Education as all round development of a person physically,intellectual,morally,spiritually.

7. E.B Castle define education as what happen to us from the day we were born to the day we die.

8.Farrant (1964) believed that education is acceptable member community

9. Durkheim sees education as socialization aggregate of all processes by which a child or young aduly develops the abilities, attitudes and other form of behaviour which are of positive value of society which he lives

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