PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL BASES OF EDUCATION IN THE OPINIONS OF ARMENIAN MEDIEVAL THINKERS (5TH – 15TH CENTURIES)

Abstract

Education, its purpose and goals, its role and importance in the process of human and social development have always been paid a great attention by intellectuals, national figures and
high rank clergymen. At diverse stages of the society development, these issues were dealt with in different ways and interpreted from different points of view. All events of social life, class contradictions and, in general, any kind of changes affect the education and lead to its modification and transformation. That is to say that alongside with the life changes, education sphere is being transformed as well. During the studied period the dominating social structure is Armenia was feudalism. Subsequently, the official education must have had all the traits proper to clerical and feudal education.