THE IMPACT OF PHILOSOPHERS OF EDUCATION ON ANTHROPOLOGY, HUMAN AND EDUCATION

Abstract

Pestalozzi, the educational philosopher and teacher in defining education says: education refers to natural, gradual and harmonic growth of all the forces and talents which exist but are hidden inside an individual. In psychologists belief also education refers to orderly and desirable changes that a human being creates inside him or others. From the perspective of philosophy and Sociologists also the principles of education are similar to Frames, judgments and rules which place a society in the path of education. More precisely, education principles are those norms and standards which express Do's and don'ts of education. This is the point in which philosophy, sociology, psychology get close to Anthropology with respect to the concept of education and how it is formed. Anthropology is one of the most important divine and human knowledge which has a great impact and significant in the domain of human’s thoughts and cognition. Analysis of what is anthropology is performed on the basis of its background,definition and types. An important thing to be noted is that anthropology has a close relationship with philosophy and science, such that it draws on the philosophy and thought of its own period for its Foundations and Principles for human study. It is in line with this fact that the anthropology definitions with the dominant view of plutonian philosophy which exists
as well in Descartes and Kant, defines and recreates culture, values as well the issue of education. As he was considering a unique form and structure for culture, education, rules and … that it is the duty of every anthropologist to be aware of its predetermined mechanisms. Philosophers such as Plato, Kant, Locke, and Rousseau; anthropologist such as Morgan, Fraser, Taylor and even recent Anthropologist such as Strauss and Malinowski have considered their main concern to understand this mental structure among different tribes and cultures so that through it they can make them organized and systematic. However, with the emergence of post-modern world, Totality and unity of classical and modern world encounters the crisis of legitimacy and anthropology also like other sciences and other domains of thought runs into reproduction and recreation of itself and tries to prove its “being scientific” nature again with new and fresh findings and revisions.