Topic

Definitions of Education by Different Authors:

Course Name
Sociology of Education
Submitted to
Prof. Ayesha Abdullah
Submitted by
Sumaira Parveen
Roll Number
246026
Semester
(B.Ed )
1st…………

Post Graduate College 18 Hazari. Jhang

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 Definitions of Education by Muslim scholars and thinkers:

1. Imam Ghazali:

"Education is a process which enables an individual to distinguish

between truth and falsehood, right and wrong."

2. Ibn Khaldun:

"Education is the means to transfer knowledge and civilization from

one generation to another."

3. Al-Farabi:

"The purpose of education is to achieve happiness through intellectual

and moral excellence."

4. Ibn Sina (Avicenna):

"Education should develop both the intellectual and moral aspects of

an individual."

5. Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi:

"Education is not about memorizing facts, but about awakening the

soul to its higher purpose."

6. Syed Ahmad Khan:

"Education is the key to progress and must include both religious and
scientific knowledge."

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7. Dr. Allama Iqbal:

"Education is not just the accumulation of knowledge, but the

development of selfhood and realization of one's potential."

8. Shah Waliullah Dehlvi:

"Education is a divine process that purifies the soul and enlightens the
mind."

9. Prof M. Irfan Abbas

"Education means gaining knowledge, learning skills, and achieving

freedom."

Definitions of education by Modern scholars and thinkers:

1. John Dewey:

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

2. Plato:

"Education is the process of training man to fulfill his aim by exercising

all the faculties to the fullest extent as a member of society."

3. Aristotle:

"Education is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body."

4. Socrates:
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"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

5. Immanuel Kant:

"Man can only become man by education."

6. Nelson Mandela:

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world."

7. Ken Robinson:

"Education is the process of developing creativity and fostering

innovation."

8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

"Education is the process of bringing out the natural abilities of a child."

9. Mahatma Gandhi:

"By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child
and man—body, mind, and spirit."

10. Rabindranath Tagore:

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us

information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

11. Horace Mann:

"Education is the great equalizer of the conditions of men."

12. John Locke:

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"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and
reflection must finish him."

13. Albert Einstein:

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to
think."

14. Maria Montessori:

"Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not

acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment."

15. Frederick Douglass:

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

16. Malcolm X:

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those

who prepare for it today."

17. Benjamin Franklin:

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

18. Thomas Jefferson:

"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free

people."

19. Henry Adams:

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

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20. Paulo Freire:

"Education is freedom."

21. Edward Thorndike:

"Education is the process by which the individual gains knowledge,

insight, and develops habits."

22. John Stuart Mill:

"The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals
composing it."

23. Theodore Roosevelt:

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a

menace to society."

24. William Butler Yeats:

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

25. George Washington Carver:

"Education is the key to unlocking the golden door of freedom."

26. Helen Keller:

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

27. Mark Twain:

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

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28. Cicero:

"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and
instruct our youth?"

29. John F. Kennedy:

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest

abilities."

30. Albert Schweitzer:

"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the
will to help others."

31. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are
prepared to choose wisely."

32. C.S. Lewis:

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to
irrigate deserts."

33. Booker T. Washington:

"The happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most
miserable are those who do the least."

34. John Lubbock:

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"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught,
but that every child should be given the wish to learn."

35. B.F. Skinner:

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten."

36. Charles Darwin:

"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."

37. Noam Chomsky:

"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."

38. Carl Rogers:

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to
learn and change."

39. Confucius:

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds

peace."

40. Jiddu Krishnamurti:

"The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you
die, is a process of learning."

41. Lev Vygotsky:

"Through others, we become ourselves."

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42. Piaget (Jean Piaget):

"The principal goal of education is to create people who are capable of

doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have
done."

43. Augustine of Hippo:

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

44. Herbert Spencer:

"Education has for its object the formation of character."

45. John Holt:

"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the

activity of learners."

46. Derek Bok:

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

47. Arne Duncan:

"Education is the civil rights issue of our generation."

48. John Ruskin:

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making

what is best out of them."

49. Martin Luther King Jr.

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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to
think critically."

50. Erich Fromm:

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who
act like machines."

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