Islamic Philosophy Theory and Practice in Education

Education enables man to live in the contemporary society

successfully by giving him systematic intellectual and moral instruction

and training. His knowledge, abilities, character, mental faculties etc. are

developed through a well-planned process of education.

Unprecedented changes have taken place in all areas of modern

education, especially in terms of restatement of its aims, restructuring of

its curricula, re-scheduling of teaching-learning processes, re-consideration

of the socio-economic status of the teacher, re-definition of the value

system etc. Modern treatises on education depict this changing trends.

For a long time, the shaping and development of character of the child

was considered one of the chief objectives of education. Now-a-days its

aim has been re-stated in economic terms as the investment in human

resource development which, of course, includes the development of

character and inculcation of permanent values in individuals. This

tendency in education is indicative of the continuous growth of education

as a science.

Very often in the present context, the word 'modern' implies the

Western system of education of modern times. The whole exercise of

education revolves round the processes of learning and teaching which

have undergone a continuous evolution.