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Traditional Education and Its Attitude Towards Educational Process (in Arabic)
Auther : Abdullah Zahi El-Rashdan
This study aims at answering the following questions:
- What do we mean by traditional education.
- What is the stand of traditional education concerning the elements of educational process?
- What are the errors and difficulties confronting traditional education?
This research shows that traditional education has a general attitude towards education. It has a traditional conservative view of the educational aims, school duty, teacher-student role, and means and styles. It also depends upon a traditional conservative philosophy concerning human nature, existence nature, human knowledge, and the role of ethics in maintaining the life of society. Several factors, such as religious beliefs, phiosophical theories, and social psychological attitudes co operate together to create this type of education.
Regarding the errors and difficulties which confront traditional education it may be said that it has misunderstood the role of education and school duty by giving priority to introducing knowledge to students. It has also misunderstood the student faculties, and distorted the teacher-student relation by comparing it to the relation between lord and vassal. Finally, traditional education has generally bad methods, bad means, bad curriculum, and a bad system. Furthermore, it is not sufficiently social.
Nevertheless traditional education has some virtues which have been duly mentioned in this paper.