Education is always a means of what one should be from what one is. Right from
Rousseau to Rabindranath Tagore, all thinkers in the philosophy of education in
the East and in the West have pondered deeply over the most desirable and
radical efflorescence of the child whose education should be christened with
fullness. With Rousseau���s child centric education as the focal point,
pioneering contributions of celebrated Eastern and Western thinkers in the
philosophy of education���Pestalozzi, Herbart, Froebel, Montessori, Dewey,
Tagore, Gandhi and Vivekananda���have been discussed in detail in this book.A
comprehensive, critical and penetrating analysis specially meant for teacher
trainees, post graduate and research scholars in Education,