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Is happiness embedded in the concept of education as an aim of education? The paper explores happiness—understood inclusively as a positive mental state—by examining the relevant literature from various disciplines.
Happiness should be an aim of education, and a good education should contribute significantly to personal and collective happiness’. Sadly, much schooling and non-formal education has become increasingly directed towards economic end.
“The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.” “Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.” “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
Sep 19, 2014 · Dewey champions the role of education in equipping us with the sort of critical thinking necessary for questioning authority, deconditioning our “mental bad habits,” and dispelling false beliefs and illusory ideas bequeathed to us by society: Causes of bad mental habits are social as well as inborn….
Dec 3, 2018 · Ultimately, in the words of philosopher Nel Noddings: “happiness should be an aim of education, and a good education should contribute significantly to personal and collective...
Jun 30, 2009 · If the latter is so, what should we aim at that might promote happiness? Until quite recently, aims-talk figured prominently in educational theory, and most education systems prefaced their curriculum documents with statements of their aims.
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Happiness and education are, properly, inti-mately related: Happiness should be an aim of education, and a good education should contribute significantly to personal and collective happiness. An interest in biography has increased my concern about the con-nections among happiness, misery, boredom, and schooling.