Aims of Education

• General statements that provide shape and direction

• Starting points that suggest an ideal or inspirational vision of the good

• Guides for the educational process

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Only a few aims are necessary to guide education

Tyler’s Aims of American schooling (p269)

Doll’s Aims (p270) address the cognitive, the affective, and the productive. Ornstein and Hunkins added physical, aesthetic, moral, and spiritual.