01. Education is
Pambahinne Gaya Murthi Thero
First Year
Sri Lanka Monastic University
Anuradhapura

To find out what education is, we must first pay attention to how the word education is formed. It is a word derived from the Latin word Educo. It was later formed as Education. The meaning of the word Education is given in the Sanskrit English Dictionary as follows.
v To instruct
v To teach Agrawal
Agrawal - According to the scientist, education is analyzed under four main points.
v Education - The process of learning.
v Educere - To guide or bring out.
v Educare - To bring up, to train, to train.
v Educo - To direct, to bring out the essence.

Various philosophers have expressed different views on education. Among those ideas, Dewey can be pointed out as the philosopher who first paid attention to education as a process occurring in society from a scientific perspective. However, there is no evidence that scientists paid close attention to that idea. After Dewey, the philosophers who looked at education from a sociological perspective and expressed its importance can be pointed out as Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Of these two, Emile Durkheim has paid more attention to education. The philosophical views presented on education from a philosophical perspective in the early days can be pointed out as follows.I kindly request your support. Thank you!!!