Philosophy is the original intellectual discipline. It has been described as the "Mother of all arts" and "The science of all sciences.The art of education will never attain completeness without philosophy. Thus we can say the Philosophy is the backbone of Education. The need of the study is basically to put the ideas of the two thinkers viz, Bertrand Russell and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan in the most simply in all mental contexts. The main aim of this study is to understand, analyse and interpret the educational thoughts of these two great educational philosophers.