Pontotoc is a city in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, United States. Pontotoc is west of the much larger city of Tupelo. The population was 5,253 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pontotoc County. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word meaning Land of Hanging Grapes.
the purpose of education. Education Purpose. Education, in general terms, may be explained as the process of acquiring data and knowledge, along with learning various forms of behavior and competency in a specific field. The purpose of education is to cultivate human minds with values and principles that help to distinguish between wrong and right.
Growth, through the reconstruction of experience, is the nature, and should be the open-ended goal, of. education, B. The only type of goal to which education should lead is to the goal of truth, which is absolute, universal, and. unchanging. C. The primary concern of education should be with the development of the uniqueness of individual students. D. The goal of education should be to provide a framework of knowledge for the student against which new. truths can be gathered and assimilated.