The aims of education are warmly connected with human life. The following points are the sectors of the connection:
1. Livelihood: Livelihood is essential for human life everywhere. Hence, one of the main aims of education is to develop men's and women's physical and mental strength according to their abilities. That’s why, they can earn their livelihoods.
2. Development of Personality: A balanced development of personality is essential for the individual’s life both private and social. Without this, he/she can neither satisfy all his/her needs nor lead a successful life. Consequently, all modern educationists consistently agree that the aim of education should complete the development of human personality.
3. Intellectual Development: Man is distinct from all living beings because of his intelligence. It is based on his intelligence that he has become superior to all other forms of life. Through his knowledge and intelligence, he developed science and technology and by using it he has expanded mastery over nature. It will, therefore, be quiet to state that all his future progress depends to an extent upon his intellectual development. This is also one of the key aims of education.
4. Physical Development: In the struggle for survival, man desires a healthy and strong body. Without it, it is difficult to live or satisfy his/her requirements. Hence, education should aim to develop an individual’s body.
5. Moral Development: Ethical and moral values are measured as important parts of human life. Character is the most respected thing of the individual. In addition, moral laws help to succeed in human life in every sphere, be it the family, the neighborhood, or society at large. The importance of moral qualities and obedience to moral laws. The importance of moral values is even more evident in the modern world due to the unprecedented improvement in the means of transport and communications and the remarkable power of destruction possessed by modern weapons. In the absence of ethical values, the world will be engaged in catastrophic wars. That’s why to live in a peaceful world, moral and ethical development has also become an important object of education.
6. Aesthetic Development: Like other living beings, man is not pleased just by maintaining his presence. He seeks to raise his life above the level of survival, and the things he needs for these requirements must not only be useful but also attractive and aesthetically satisfying. Cultural development includes the development of sensibility and awareness of the aesthetically satisfying in art and literature. Education also seeks to develop aesthetic sensibility.
7. Social Development: Most of man’s life is spent in a social environment, and to accommodate this environment, the individual requires many social qualities. Education tries to improve these social abilities to enable the child’s social amendment.
8. Cultural Development: Human beings are said to be cultured because they are to be great from other living beings. Culture is man’s entitlement since it is not found among other animals. It is a culture that maintains a man’s relationship with his ancestors and ensures his connections with the succeeding generations. He becomes it as his social inheritance and passes it on. Cultural development is also a significant characteristic of education.
9. Spiritual Development: Another distinctive feature of human life is the precedence of the spiritual element. It is for this reason that religious texts state that human life is granted to the soul after it has lived the life of other living beings. Man’s advantage is thus the result of his religiousness. He is not merely an effective animal. He even seeks to identify himself with heavenly power. His future depends on this spiritual development. Thus, spiritual development is also believed as one of the important aims of education.
10. Total Development: Man is a complex being, made up of various physiological parts, such as the motor organs, sense organs, nervous system, etc. In addition, man has intelligence, emotions, feelings, etc., as well as the social, cultural, and other aspects of personality. Because of this complexity, it is believed that education must seek to develop every aspect of the human individual. He is qualified to make the best use of his body. Moreover, efforts are made to develop human aesthetic, intellectual, moral, cultural, and, social, aspects. Some people trust that this is the ideal of human excellence.
11. Training for Civic Life: It has already been explained that, in civilized societies, human life is identical to social life. Hence, education is considered to train the individual as a citizen and to fulfill all his responsibilities to society.
12. Training in International Living: Today, the individual is not restricted in his movement by the borders of the country. In the West, people commonly travel from one country to another. It is now commonly felt that if a man is to rise above his present level, he must be prepared to discard his narrow nationalistic leanings and adopt a more universal or international attitude. Since this is a new situation, another objective has been imported into the mandate of education, and that is, it must prepare education for international living.
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