Aristotle's View On Education By E. G. White

Basically education is the most important to all human beings. Every activities has a background foundation in education. It gives opportunities to each human being to achieve their fullest personal, spiritual, mental, social, and physical potentials. The capacity of being educated is what therefore differentiate human being from animals. Education also changes an individual and allows her to effect change in her environment.

“The word education comes from the Latin educare, to draw out. In a broad sense it means not only to elicit creative throughout and knowledge from the student, but to draw humankind out of the predicament it is in. and that predicament, according to both Jewish and Christian view points, radically differs from the original
G. White had a very comprehensive and correct conception of education. She actually saw education as being one and the same. Her conception of education was practical and had earthly value, yet it had external implication. While Aristotle’s view on education was the same as that of his teachers, that is “the creation of a sound mind in a sound body”. Thus to him education was the welfare of the individuals so as to bring happiness in their lives.

For Aristotle, the tenet of his education is identical with the goal of man. Obviously all forms of education explicitly or implicitly directed towards a human idea. But Aristotle considers that education is essential for the complete self – realization of man. The supreme good to which all aspire is happiness. But for Aristotle the happy man is neither a noble savage, nor man in his natural state, but the educated man.

(Ellen G. White, 1903, pp. 15 – 16), her tenet of education was to restore man in the image of his maker, to bring him back to the perfection in which he was created, to promote the development of body, mind, and soul, that the divine purpose in his creation might be realizes – this was to be the work of the redemption. This is the object of education, the great object of
30), states that “in the highest sense of the work of education and the work of redemption are one, for in education, as in redemption, “other foundation can man lay that is laid, which is Jesus Christ”.

Mrs. White contends that: true education means more than just the perusal of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come.

Aristotle is faithful to his principles of the man in what he says about physical training. This does not involve over – rigorous training or brutal upbringing. Neither is it a matter of paramilitary instruction. For Aristotle physical training is not simply a matter of the body: it must help to form character that is courage and a sense of honor. Moreover, it is particularly curious that when Aristotle lists the various public function of the ideal state he makes no reference to the teacher. Likewise, when describing the general plan of the city, he has nothing to say about the location of the