Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

education in the strict sense of the word. 
In this case, education (In Czech: 
vzdělávání) is related to the intellectual 
aspects of personality. However, the term education in this respect contains 
both aspects (upbringing and training) because the intellectual component 
can be hardly separated in moral or another education. And if education is 
understood as the development of the intellectual component, it can hardly 
do without the emotional component. Both processes contribute to 
personality development and are complementary.
If education involves the development of personality with respect to the 
basic personality components (intellectual, skills-based and emotional) or to 
all five basic components of education (intellectual, moral, physical, 
esthetical and working), it is education in a broader sense. In other 
languages (especially in English), no difference is made in respect of these 
terms. This can also be seen in the scheme below where education in the 
broader sense is denoted as education (In Czech: 
edukace). 
Scheme 1: Education in the Strict and Broader Sense of the Word
EDUCATION 
(in the broader sense of the word) 
 
 
EDUCATION
+ 
 
EDUCATION 
(INSTRUCTION/TRAINING) 
 
(in the strict sense of the word)
(intellectual education) 
3.1.2 Definition of Education 
Education is an intentional, more or less systematic development of 
emotional and intellectual properties of humans, creation of their attitudes, 
types of behaviour in conformity with the objectives of the given group, 
culture, etc. (Hartl, Hartlová, 2000, p. 680) 

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Education is a process of intentional and goal-directed creation and 
influencing of conditions enabling the optimal development of each 
individual in line with individual predispositions and stimulating one’s own 
efforts to become an authentic, internally integrated and socialised 
personality (Průcha, Walterová, Mareš, 2003). 
Education is optimisation of the man and his world; it is intentional 
perfection of the man’s coherent, conscious, active and creative relationship 
toward the world, meaning the nature, society and one's self (Blížkovský, 
1997, p. 23). 
Education is an intentional and goal-directed activity manifested through the 
universal shaping of personality and having an adapting, anticipating and 
permanent character. It is a specific human activity (Holoušová, 
Grecmanová, Urbanovská, 1998, p. 50).