ABSTRACT
The Social philosophy and the philosophy of education are concerned with the assumptions make and the concepts use in thinking about society and education. It is neither a statement concerning the nature of things nor a subjective appreciation, but a social, an objective evaluation. Idealism accepts values as having reality; such values are axiomatic or given; they are intrinsic and not extrinsic or instrumental. The very existence of idealism as a philosophy implies its opposite —realism. Naturalism is opposed to idealism in that it believes that are restricts to the phenomenal world of scientific investigation. Pragmatism insists upon the validity of empirical methods, and upon the necessity of changing hypotheses in the light of new discovery. Pragmatist philosophy in educational practice has always come in for severe criticism. The philosophies of Personalism, with the exception of those of Gabriel Marcel and Martin Buber, have almost silent on the problems of education as such, although they clearly have implications for education.
