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Education is the one and only means of achieving maturity, and raising the individual and social
levels; therefore, it is a binding necessity of life and a significant part in the entities of societies
and individuals.
The Educational Goals
Education enjoys serious goals and big social responsibilities. The specialists have exerted great
efforts for explicating such goals and responsibilities. Yet, they have had different viewpoints
regarding the question of defining those responsibilities. Some worked in the frame of the
spiritual goals while others worked in the material. A third group looked upon the social goals, and
a fourth sought the individual growth and the personal composition.
Spiritual Goals:
Some Islamic educationists have affirmed that the basic purposes of education and learning are
self‐purity, self‐chastity, and the constructing of relations with God. This is the most elevated
purpose and the noblest intendment. Al‐Ghezali says, “O youngster! Many are the nights that you
have passed with seeking knowledge and scanning books, and you abstained from sleep. I do not
know your intendment. If it has been obtaining the concerns of this world, collecting its
wreckages, holding its positions, and ostentation before the others, then woe is you! If your
intendment is enlivening the Prophet’s practices, refining your ethics, and violating the bad‐
tending soul, then many happy returns will be yours!”[3]
A number of Islamic educationists specify self‐purity as the provisory of receiving knowledge. On
that account, teachers used to check one’s moralities before being
[1] Refer to Psychology in life.
[2] Refer to Education and guidance: 10‐1.
[3] Refer to Ayyuhal Walad: 94.
accepted as a student. The morally wrong ones were dismissed from classes so that they would
not use their knowledge in evildoings.[1]
Froble says that education is supposed to make the individuals feel their internal souls, realize
nature, and confide in God’s oneness. Likewise, it must lead the individuals to the sacred pure life
that is originated by the cognition of God, nature, and the human spirit.[2] He also affirms that the
purpose of education should be the presentation of a sacred pure life of sincerity and
goodness.[3]
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