Idealism

Beliefs

•           Education leads an individual to the highest moral conduct and deepest spiritual insight. 

•           Human life aims at the development of personality through amoral, ethical, and cultural   

            awareness and self-realization which build up the character of the person. 

Aims of education

•           Evolution of mind emancipation of spirit, self-realization, and realization of higher values of life.

Curriculum  

•           Curriculum content should contain such content which develops values to attain the highest good. This highest good can be attained from three types of activities; intellectual (languages, literature, science, maths, history, and geography) aesthetic (art and poetry and moral activities (religion, ethics, and metaphysics).

Methods of teaching

·         Socratic method-dialectics which leads to probing.

·         Deductive-inductive method and analytic method

·         Principle: instruction-activity and experience

Teacher

·         The teacher is considered to be completely knowledgeable than the student so he should develop the students’ personality with his advice, direction, and control.

·         Advisor, director, and controller of the conduct of the students.

Learner

·         Learner is responsible to obey the teacher for his self-discipline.

·         Learner is more passive than the teacher.

Epistemology

·          The knowledge which helps in intellectual development and self-realization.

Ontology

·         Ideas play important role in spiritual development.

Axiology

·         Cultural awareness to receive values and moral development and art and poetry.