Definition of Education by Different Authors

Education has been defined by many educationists, philosophers and authors. It is a word we hear very familiar in everyday life, because education is considered the most significant activity in any society.

Something that is important, but not independent of the number of opinions and assumptions about the meaning and definition of true education.

In this article, I intend to write the opinion of experts on education which of course will vary depending on each individual perception. This article will certainly open up our minds about how to define education.

Definition of Education by Different Authors
Definition of Education by Different Authors

Education is the process of training man to fulfill his aim by exercising all the faculties to the fullest extent as a member of society. Aristotle

Education is every interaction that happens is every association that occurs between adults with children is a field or a state where the educational work in progress. M.J. Langeveld

Education efforts that are deliberately chosen to influence and assist children with the aim of improving knowledge, physical and morals that can gradually deliver the child to the highest goal. In order for the child to live a happy, and all what dilakukanya(he did) be beneficial to himself and society. Prof. H. Mahmud Yunus

Education means the bringing out of the ideas of universal validity which are latent in the mind of every man. Socrates

Education is defined as a learning process for the individual to attain knowledge and understanding of the higher specific objects and specific. The knowledge gained formally resulting individual has a pattern of thought and behavior in accordance with the education they have gained. Big Indonesian Dictionary (1991)

Education is a combination of growth and human development with social legacy. Kohnstamm and Gunning (1995): Education is the formation of conscience. Education is a process of self-formation and self-determination ethically, conformed conscience. Stella van Petten Henderson

Education is a conscious and deliberate effort to create an atmosphere of learning and the learning process so that learners are actively developing the potential for him to have the spiritual strength of religious, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and the skills needed themselves and society. Wikipedia

Education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. (Education is everything along with growth; education itself has no final destination behind him). John Dewey (1978)

In the broadest sense, education is the device by which a social group continued existence renew yourself, and defend his ideas. H.H Horne

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