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ABSTRACT

There are indispensable needs to assess the nature or contents of education the human person as an agent of development and a subject of lived experiences, with the purposes of whether the minds are properly formed or not. Hence, this paper is positioned to explicate the placement of idealism as a philosophical doctrine and the societal understanding of liberal art tradition in the development of effective and holistic educational practices and curricula for the realization of integral humanism. It is through well-informed and educated minds that the integral humanism is realizable. Therefore, the paper tries to explain the meaning and societal conception of philosophy with special reference to its applications and consideration in education of the minds, and to situates education within the societal workability of philosophy as a discipline which help the individual as a teacher or learner in making good use of mental (spiritual and moral) capabilities through the understanding of idealistic tradition of education as suggested and this allows the individual to assess the contents of human knowledge beyond one’s professed discipline of specialty. The paper recognized that the human minds are the seats of integral development, and they are required to be well informed through the well-ordered educational curricula, based on the adoption of idealistic educational policies.