Most Important Aim of Education According to Pragmatism are given below:
1. Creation of new Values:
Pragmatists have no fixed aims or goals of education. According to Ross. “The general educational aim of the pragmatist is just the creation of new values.
So the main task of the educator is to put the educed into a position of developing values for himself.”
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2. Activity and Experience:
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For the creation of new values, activity and experience are essential. Education should, therefore, provide physical, intellectual, moral and aesthetic activities as the media for the creation of values.
3. Personal and Social Adjustment:
But all these aspects are developed not for their own sake, but for meeting the individual and social needs of man. So the main aim of education is “to direct the impulses, interests and abilities towards the satisfaction of the need felt child in the environment.”
4. Reconstruction of Experience:
Then, as every individual is required to solve many diverse problems in his life, the aim of education should also be the formulation and cultivation of a dynamic adoptable, resourceful and enterprising mind. It is with such a mind that original and creative thinking is possible which will enable a person to cope-successfully with the varied situations of life. Pragmatism emphasises adaptation to environment, construction and re-construction of experience and development of capacities to control the environment.
5. All Round Development:
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All round development of the individual is also important aim of education. The individual develops physically, mentally, socially, morally and aesthetically.