Pedagogies and Philosophies of Self-cultivation

Educational philosophies of self-cultivation as the cultural foundation and philosophical ethos for education have a strong and historically effective tradition stretching back to antiquity in the classical ‘cradle’ civilizations of China and East Asia, India and Pakistan, Greece and Anatolia, focussed on the cultural traditions in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in the East and Hellenistic philosophy in the West.