Ideology of education is a label applied to the study of purpose, process, nature and ideals of education. Education can be defined as the tutoring and learning of particular skills and giving of knowledge and judgement. And it is something which is wider than the societal institution of education we often speak.
Educationalist considers it as a weak field, because it removed the practical applications of the real world too far which are useful for all. Philosophers like Plato and the Ancient Greeks have given the area much thought and emphasis that there is a little doubt that their work has helped to shape the practice of education.
Plato an educational thinker and the writer of "The Republic", where he advocates some extreme methods like: removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state, and differentiating children suitable to the various castes, the highest receiving the most education, so they could act as guardians of the city and care for the less able. He believed that education should be as whole including facts, skills, physical discipline, art and music. He admits that talent and intelligence are not distributed genetically and thus is found in children born to all classes but his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of population does not really follow a democratic model.
Aristotle considered human nature, habit and reason to be equally specific forces to cultivate in education, the main aim of which should be produce good citizens. He proposed that teachers lead and guide their children or students systematically and that repetition by practice be used as a key tool to develop good habits. He highlighted the balancing of the theoretical and practical aspects of subjects taught among which he clearly mentions reading, writing, mathematics, music, physical education, history, literature and the broad range of science, as well as play, which Aristotle also considered important for the same.
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