The basic aim of education is the passing on of the social heritage of the human race. In passing on this heritage, the school can be either conservative or progressive. Here we have tried to bring together highly useful information on the aims of education. Very succinctly chosen fifteen essays, contained herein, attempt at elaborating the aims of education from different analytical angles. These are: The aims of education; John Dewey on aims of education; Education and free will; Heredity and education; The spirit of modern American education; Unity and diversity in the modern intellectual disciplines; Crisis in man's knowledge; Meaning of alienation; The organization man; One dimensional man; Spiritual problem of modern man; Existentialism; cultural postures and educational aims; Education at the crossroads; Changed conceptions of the ideal and the real, etc.
