major function of philosophy

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 Philosophy refers to the study of nature and meaning of universe and human life. Also philosophy defined as a love of wisdom. The word philosophy comes from the two Greek words  which are  ‘philo’ means wisdom and ‘sophy’ means love.
Etymologically, the word education is derived from the educate (Latin)”bring up”, which is related to educate “bring out”, “bring forth” what is within”, “bring out potential” and ducere “to lead”. Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In it technical sense education is the process by which the society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledges, skills and values from one generation to another generation,
Education, like philosophy is always closely related to human life their fore, being an important life activities education is always greatly influenced by the philosophy. Various fields of philosophy like political philosophy, social and economic philosophy have a great influence on the various aspect of education like education procedures processes, planning, policies and its implementations, from both theoretical and practical aspects.
Philosophers seen philosophy as a study that essentially simplifies and analyses issues and statements pertaining to other subject in order to enable us understand them better. The functions of philosophy are explained as follows;
 Analytical function, this has to do with the analysis and clarification of ideas, issues and statements to enable us to understand the subject matter of other disciplines  function of philosophy.
Speculative or Normative function, the mind is very essential instrument for doing philosophy .The mind is one gift to man which enables him to think about himself, the people around the world in general. With it he can speculate about things he is not sure of imagines things that are possible and even those are not possible. It occurred within the context of our social and cultural environment.
Inspirational function, the educational process is constantly inspired by philosophers such work as Prato’s republic and others like it have become the reference book for many educators because they obtained a lot of insight from these books to guide their activities for one thinks every society has its ideas and strives to attain it.Plato’s idea in republic is one which education serves as an important criterion for assigning social positions and responsibilities. He believed that people should be educated in order to enable them achieve self-fulfillment. Even through Plato’s society does not pretend to strive for equality of all people, it is still a model to inspire the Nigeria educator in his effort to bring about a measure of equalities in the society.
Prescription function, every nation has its problems which call for solution. It is expected that everyone would contribute to the best of his ability. Although philosophy has a lot to contribute philosophers are sometimes excluded from the decision making process. This appears to have made the situation worse for example, before adopting a new educational or social policy in the country one would expect that philosophers would be included in the planning. Such contribution would benefit all concerned; some educational philosophers in the country hold the view that the poverty of Nigeria’s philosophical base is responsible for our technological underdevelopment. Philosophical prescript is therefore, made to help and to overcome these race.
To harmonizing old and new traditions in the field of education; in the process of social development the old traditions become outdated for the people. They are replaced by the new traditions. But this process of replacements is not always smooth. It is faced with lots of opposition from certain orthodox sections of the society. At the same time it must be kept in mind that every old is not outdated and every new is not perfect therefore, here is need of co-ordinating the two in order to maintain harmony between both. This function can be performed by philosophy of education.
Co-ordination function, since it is well known that all other disciplines are generated from philosophy, philosophy cannot be seen as competing with its offspring. In view of the fact that these disciplines have established their knowledge base solidly, philosophy has mapped out for itself other responsibilities. The fact that there exist at present such areas as philosophy of science, social science, law and philosophy of education among other shows the contribute that philosophy still makes to learning.  
            To determine the aims of education. Philosophy of education provides original ideas regarding all aspects of education particularly educational aims. It is said that educational philosophy gives different views, but this situation is not harmful, rather it helps in providing education according to the need of society. The difference in view of philosophy of education refracts the multiplicity and diversities of human life .Philosophy of education guides the process of education by suggesting suitable aims.
            Conclusively; Over the years philosophy has assumed a more moderates role by confining itself to analyzing and clarifying concept and statements. It also tries to resolve issues in human life in order to improve our understanding of the subject matter in general.

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