Education as discipline

There is a great discussion among scholars about the entity of education as a separate discipline. Some scholars believe that education is not a separate discipline. It is only a loose combination of different disciplines such as philosophy, pedagogy, psychology etc.
A discipline is an internal body of knowledge which has distinct origin, theoretical structure, foundation and research methodology known as a product of human experience. Human beings are discovering different types of knowledge from very beginning of their own origin. They experienced the all natural phenomena around them and also find out the processes behind them. It developed a hierarchy of knowledge.
Education is a distinct disciplines which was the product of human experiences. Education originated due to the endeavor of human being to reveal the process of human learning. The main inquiry related to the origin of education as a discipline is " what are the real knowledge and how an individual acquires the knowledge" .
Education as a separate discipline is rich of the many facts, concepts, principle and laws, which furnish the theoretical structure of the discipline. All the inquiries related to field of education can be answered on the basis of those theoretical structure. All those features related to education supports the view that education is a separate discipline which has its distinct origin, theoretical structure , foundation and research methodology.