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According to Fallah et al. [34], idealists consider the human mind as the major substance for understanding the world. Ideals form the vital aim of life and education, connecting conception and schema through the mind [35]. In terms of understanding, the senses are as important as the mind [34]. The idealists’ beliefs indicate that schools perceive knowledge as a liberated unit secluded from sensual experience and understanding, with individuals’ self-realization of who they are and the purpose of such being [36]. Idealistic educational aims focus on training as well as activating the human mind and ignoring physical things [34]. The primary subject matters schools offer include mathematics, philosophy, art studies, and history based on the origins of idealistic values [34].

The origins of idealistic values remain perpetual and permanent in a particular spiritual natural force, and such everlasting values exist in spiritual entities or mysticism [37]. Goodness and beauty are consistent with the absolute nature of goodness and absolute beauty created by the Al-Mighty Creator (as many people believe) [37]. Because they are significant measures of the stable natural order, their values are absolute and fixed [37]. In enhancing human mind development and achieving individual spiritual growth, educational institutions need to concentrate on individual autonomy and accountability, self-realization, self-control, intellectual activities, and moral judgments as some of the aims of education [34, 37]. Such educational values and objectives require skillful, competent, and capable teachers who are proficient at fulfilling students’ educational/learning needs and help in developing spiritual values as indicated by the idealistic aims of education.

As an imperative idealistic educational implication, the aims of education must guide students’ minds toward accurate or right desires by continuing the communication between consciousness and visualization in rational thinking [38]. The ultimate morality individuals must strive for would be ’happiness’, which leads them to be sophisticated since morals and ethics can be attained and achieved through education [39, 40]. Nations must aim at training human beings to accurate nature to lead their beliefs towards a moral system, because education can develop human beings and pupils or students [22, 41, 42].

’Self-realization’ is the ultimate aim of education in Idealism, and in order to accomplish that state, teachers need to teach and guide their students’ learning styles and methods to be aware of their capacities for bravery and to emulate them [41, 42]. In Idealism, the aims of education include—training for a holy life, improvement of willpower, self-realization, preservation, promotion, the transformation of cultural heritage, mounting harmony in diversity, and the development of spiritual values [42, 43].

The development of spiritual values requires learners to be taught skills such as communication, debate, dialogue, conversation, and discussion in order to gain wisdom about what is attractive, correct, ethical, and honorable [40]. Teachers, as their guides, instruct their learners to become natural and appreciate reflective investigations to progress, advance themselves, and attain character development [16, 19]. The development of self and character in Idealism is another major aim of education that might lead learners to achieve self-actualization [44]. This could be accomplished provided that teachers organize and establish education for the growth of learners’ spiritually, ethically, and morally [42, 43]. In the direction of improving individuals in general and students in particular, the idealistic educational philosophy provided teachers with several remarkable teaching methods.