As Dupis defines, “Philosophy of education is one of the oldest, yet one of the newest disciplines.” It is one of the oldest since Plato; the philosopher of par excellence of ancient time’s devoted considerable attention to the nature, purposes and content of education.
It is one of the newest since philosophy of education began to emerge as a separate discipline only in twentieth century. Now it is realized that Philosophy and education are related like flower and fragrance. Philosophy determines all the aspects of education-nature of education, curriculum, method of teaching, nature of text-book, and nature of discipline, evaluation role of the teacher, school organization etc. and education make them practical.