ABSTRACT
In the majority of instances the educational process involves human interaction, between the learners and between teacher and learner, so that the ethical issues involved in social intercourse are of fundamental importance in any consideration of education. As Michael Young suggests, an ‘educational system based on a model of bookish learning for medieval priests which was extended first to lawyers and doctors and increasingly has come to dominate all education of older age groups in industrial societies’. A traditional image of education, especially in some institutions of higher education, is of the lecturer entering the lecture theatre, expounding his knowledge to the students who listen or take notes so that they can learn and regurgitate these in the necessary examination. Education is a humanistic process in which the participants should be able to fulfil their own human potential, develop their selves and learn to be.
