ABSTRACT
Most student teachers receive an abundance of advice and guidance from all around them when learning to teach concerning the important technical and practical information they need. This chapter focuses on the aims of the educational process in schools. All education systems are governed by underlying aims, whether or not they are stated explicitly. These may be decided at different political or administrative levels. Different people can have different ideas about the aims of education; and these differences may be quite legitimate. It can be argued that some aims are inherent in the concept of education, if we take education to mean an initiation into practices relating to being human in the world, as did one highly influential philosopher of education, Richard Peters. Government education policies are inevitably influenced by political priorities. These tend to be driven by concerns to promote economic stability and growth.
