Education is a vast discipline, the process of which starts from the very outset of life and ends with the end of life. The Egyptians and Sumerians founded the very first schools in about 3000 B.C. Thereafter, Plato founded a school of philosophy, called, the Academy in about 387 B.C. In the 18th c. the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason brought new disciplines and teaching methods. State education began in the early 19th c. and in 1841; Froebel started the first Kindergarten and so on. Similarly, Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna, Sir Syed, Abdul Kalam Azad etc. all those geniuses whose names are written with golden letters in the pages of history. All of them contributed their energies in various ways. They not only structed the syllabi but also formulated the policies in order to carry the light of education in the remotest rural areas. They also chalked out programmes for the training of teachers to make them abreast of the developments taking place in the world of education. Present work is a treatise on the lives, struggles, and contributions of the great educationalists of the world. It would, hopefully, be of immense interest and inspiration for all the scholars, students, academics, researchers and the general readers alike.

Islam is the only religion in the world makes it mandatory for its followers to obtain education and acknowledge. Therefore, obviously, Islam has a defined and clear cut policy on education and talks of a perfect education system. This study explores the dimensions of Islamic education and elaborates the principles, factors and methods, at work in Islamic Education System. The entire information is gathered under twenty two chapters. This work deserves to be recommended for serious reading and reference for all scholars and researchers.

The Models of Teaching in an area of contemporary relevance. Various Models of Teaching have been conceived and implemented in the classroom. In this book three Models of Teaching Biology have been developed for teaching three selected topics in Biology. The Models described are Discovery Learning Model, Memory Model and Computer based Model. Based on the findings of empirical research, this will prove useful and informative to researchers and teachers.

This book is of considerable interest to all educationists as well as to all parents, social workers and planners- especially because there are several misconceptions about the role values, aspiration and academic achievements play in one's preferences for occupations and the reality which eventually lands one into an occupation. As life is becoming more and more complex and the world of work is getting highly competitive and amenable to devious pressures, any predictability on grounds suggested by the author are subject to 'chance' factor which is philosophical mould could easily be called one's destiny. The author has made a study of vocational area by using multiple discriminate analysis techniques. This study is based on multiple variant analysis techniques which is generally not used by other researchers. Besides statistics, ht study is limited in scope but intensive in its extension. It could be useful for other researchers in Education and Vocational Guidance Area.