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Synopsis The present book aims to familiarize the reader with the most important perennial questions in philosophy of education. It combines both a historical overview of world education and a balanced treatment to leading educational philosophies. It explores the ideas and views of famous Indian and western philosophers, theologians, and educationists with distinctive theories and education and methods of teaching. It emphasizes both the importance of contexts and situations in the development of educational ideas as well as those features of educational theories that transcend particular historical contexts. This work is an integrated and comprehensive approach to education, philosophies, philosophers, the child, the teacher, the curriculum and different problems of education. Researchers historians, educationists, philosophers and general readers can derive benefit out of it.