The word education has a very wide connotation. It is hard to define. There is no single objective which can cover the whole of life with its various manifestations. The two poles of our concern; the temporal and the world of spirit are widely apart. Philosophers and thinkers from Socrates (469-399B.C) to Dewey (1859-1952) in the West and Yajnavalkya (about 600 B.C.) to Gandhi (1869-1948) in the East have defined education in accordance with their philosophy of life with the result that there emerged divergent concepts and definitions of education. The concept of education is like a diamond which appears to be of different colour when seen from a different angle.
Like the proverbial elephant and the blind men, everybody i.e. a biologist, a priest a philosopher, a statesman, a teacher, a shopkeeper, a merchant an artisan…everyone seems to have his own concept of education which is influenced by his own outlook on life and his past experiences in a limited field.
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