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This philosophy believes in humanism which is in accordance with democracy. Pragmatism shows its deep faith in democracy, as democracy is a way of life and a spirit of sharing experiences.

According to this the capacity of a human being is valuable and important which enables him to adjust with the environment or which makes him able to change his environment according to his needs and requirements.

To produce a broadly educated man possessing a well rounded personality who could assume leadership in church and state.

Idealistic pattern of education grants the highest place to the educator, and conceives of the educator and educand as two parts of an organic plant.

Idealism emphasizes’ individual and social aims of education. It gives importance to the aim of self-realization which leads the child towards perfection and enables him to realize the self.

Idealism believes that there can be no spiritual development of the child without discipline. They give importance to impressionistic discipline in comparison to expressionistic discipline.

The ultimate goal of the teacher is the attainment of the aim(s) of education for his pupils. Therefore, whichever method is appropriate should be practiced.

Idealistic curriculum is thought-oriented and it stresses on those subjects which are related to the spiritual world.

Fundamental Principles of Idealism are as follows:

Rousseau was against any kind of curricular teaching or learning upto twelfth year of life. He was against any kind of verbal lesson on history, geography, or even language. He was also against teaching of morality.

According to Rousseau education means “natural development of organs and powers of the child” He said child’s first education should be negative which means avoiding teaching of virtue or truth to him.

This was another contribution to education made by naturalism. Rousseau’s negative education was another name for child’s self-education. He emphasized that it is child’s natural development which should form the basis of child’s education.

Naturalism made a very great contribution to teaching method at the early stages of education. Play way method was exclusively the contribution of naturalism. Even this method is considered important by educationists.

A natural consequence of the philosophy was that education was made Paidocentric, i.e., child- centered. It constantly emphasized the nature of the child as the focal point of all aspects of education.

The role of teacher according to Realists is neither as high and neither important as the Idealists advocate nor as negligible as the Naturalists speak out, it is fairly important.

Realists insisted that only those subjects and activities should be included in the curriculum which prepares children for actual day to day living.