[Glossary] Education and World-View

1. (Clark 1988, 3): "Education is a respectable subject for study because it is an important human activity having vital relationships with many, if not all, other human activities. It is an essential component of the world. And if it is to be treated adequately, its place in relation to the rest of the world must be accurately located. Education cannot be properly considered in a state of isolation. As an important part of the world, its understanding requires a general view of the world of which it is so important a part."

(Clark 1988, 3): "If education as a subject is to achieve the respect its inherent worth demands, its professors must produce a basic world-view into which their educational theories fit and on which they depend."

Education cannot be considered in isolation but as part of a world-view.


Reference:

Clark, Gordon H. 1988. A Christian Philosophy of Education. 2nd ed. Jefferson, Maryland: The Trinity Foundation.

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