Human Development
Complete man
Description:
The physical, intellectual, emotional and ethical integration of the individual into a complete man is a broad definition of the fundamental aim for education. This pedagogic ideal is to be found throughout history, in almost all countries, among philosophers and moralists, and among most theoreticians and visionaries of education. It has been one of the fundamental themes for humanist thought in all times. It may have been applied imperfectly, but it has been fruitful and helped to inspire many of the noblest educational enterprises.Contemporary science has shown that man is biologically unfinished. In effect he may be said never to become an adult and that his existence is an unending process of completion and learning. It is essentially his incompleteness that sets him apart from other living things, the fact that he must draw from his surroundings the techniques for living which nature and instinct fail to give him. He is obliged to learn unceasingly in order to survive and evolve.
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Perfectionism