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Quote- “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives” Robert Maynard Hutchins
ReplyDeleteFact- I found it interesting when it talked about how knowledge cannot be transmitted directly from the teacher to the student but by the student.
Question- Is one philosophy of education better than another or is it okay to be one of the four types compared to the others?
Fact: There are 4 philosophies of education- perennialism, essentialism, romanticism, and progressivism.
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey
Question: The book says that many teachers develop personal philosophies instead of using the 4 that were mentioned in the book. Is this a good thing or should we just stick with the 4?
Quote:"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."-Martin Luther King, JR.-
ReplyDeleteFact: Essentialism is a uniquely American philosophy of education that began in the 1930's and 1940's as a reaction to what was seen as an overemphasis on a child-centered approach to education and a concern that students were not gaining appropriate and adequate knowledge in schools.
Questions: What are the benefits to having a more democratic classroom?
Quote: The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
ReplyDelete- Martin Luther King Jr.
Fact: Essentialism is a philosophy of education that bgan in the 1930's and 1940's as a reaction to what was seen as an overemphasis on a child-centered approach to education and a concern that students weren't gaining appropriate and adequate knowledge in schools.
Question: Among educators, is there generally a preferred philosophy of education? (of perennialism, essentialism, romanticism, and progressivism)
Quote: "One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." Carl Sagan
ReplyDeleteFact: Different students possess a great range of learning styles and that what works with one student may flop with another.
Question: Do you think "electicism" is a lazy choice?
Quote~ "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
ReplyDeleteFact~ Essentialism began in the 30's & 40's as a reaction to what was seen as an overemphasis on a child-centered approach to education a concern that students were not gaining appropiate knowledge in schools.
Question~ How can you teach in a "project method" manner when teachers are required by the state to teach and test their students on certain topics.
Question: There are four philosophies discussed in this chapter, are ther more or others we should be aware of?
ReplyDeleteQuote: What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.--George Bernard Shaw
Fact: Discovering your personal philosophy is a lifelong process, but it should begin now.
Lacy King
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What is the overall responsibility of a school? Is Socrates correct when saying that the responsibility is to make people smart and make them good?
Fact: Axiology focuses on the nature of what we value and how we value it.
Quote: "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves througout their lives"- Robert Hutchins
Question- of the four philosphies; perennailism, essentialism, romanticism, and progressivism, which do you find the most rewarding for the students.
ReplyDeleteQuote- "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life." -Sandra Carey
Fact- Currently the Core Knowledge curriculum is being used in 694 U.S. schools.
katherine brown
ReplyDelete??: What are the four philosophies of educations?
Quote: "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living: the other helps you make a life." Sandra Carey
fact: The focus of a progressive educator is teaching students to think rather than what to think.
Quote: What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. -George Bernard Shaw-
ReplyDeleteFact: Essentialism is a uniquely American philosophy of education that began in the 1930s and 1940s as reaction to what was seen as an overemphasis on a child-centered approach to education and a concern that students were not gaining appropriate and adequate knowledge in schools.
Question: Which of the four philosophies of education do you favor?
Quote: "One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." -Carl Sagan (pg.300)
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How can the project method, created by Dewey, be beneficial. How can it detrimate a childs studies?
Fact: Behaviorism was emerged through B.F. Skinners Reasearch.
Quote: "A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."
ReplyDeleteQuestion: While I agree with Romantics in the sense that children can learn a lot through their curiosity, are home-schooled children better off or worse off than children who go to an actual school everyday?
Fact: I found it interesting that students have varying learning styles and what works with one student, it may not work with another.
fact: the word philosophy is made up of the root words "love" and "wisdom." Philosophy is the love of wisdom.
ReplyDeletequote: "The true nature of a person cannot be capture by measuring or counting alone---that is, a person is ore than the sum of his or her height and weight, IQ and SAT scores, and other "vital" statistics."
question: What are some situations in which you used the branches of philosophy (metaphysics, epistemology, logic, etc.) to reason a solution?
Quote: Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ReplyDeleteFact: The four philosophies of education are essentialism, perennialism, romanticism, and progressivism.
Question: Are these four philosophies the only four philosophies that are important in education? Should some of these philosophies be enforced less while others are introduced into teaching?
Logan Burgess
Question: What are the goals of an educater, or an education?
ReplyDeleteFact: Currently the Core Knowledge curriculum is being used in 694 U.S. schools.
Quote: all of us wreslte with the same questions "who am I", What am I doing with my life?"
Billy Jones,
ReplyDeleteQuote" The word philosphy is made up of two root words: "love" (philo) and "wisdom" (sophos). Known as the love of wisdom.
Fact: Essentialism is an uniquely American phiolosphy of education that began in the 1930's and 1940's as a reaction to what was seen as an overemphasis on a childcentered approach to education and a concern that students were not gaining appropriate and adequate knowledge in schools.
Question: How much classical enduring works do you have to include in your own teaching?
Quote: Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ReplyDeleteFact: Constructivism is a theory that implies that children must come to their own conclusions and understandings from their experiences. Children must construct their own understandings and then reconstruct these understandings later when new information is received.
Question: Do you think the traditional classroom environment (where a teacher lectures and students listen) is part of the constructionist theory?
Alicia Bell
ReplyDeleteQUOTE: "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
Question: How long does it take to create your philosophy?
Fact:The 4 philosphies of education: perennialism, essentialism, romaticism, and progressivism
Quote: Never mistake knowledge for wisdon. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
ReplyDeleteFact: Signs indicate that schools are being called back to their earlier missios of helping children deal with ethical issues.
Question: I feel our younger generation is facing ethical problems that stems from poor family life. How do we as teachers teach them good and bad when they are learning bad habits from home.
:"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education." Martin Luther King, JR.
ReplyDeleteThere are four philosophies of education; essentialism, perennialism, romanticism, and progressivism.
From the four different philosophies of education, which one do most teachers find to be most effective or do they differ depending on the classroom?
Question-What are the benefits of letting the students help us teach by giving their opinions on certian subjects? What are the disadvantages?
ReplyDeleteFact- The 4 philosophies of education are perennialism, essentialism, romanticism, and progressivism.
Quote- "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."-Sandra Carey
Question- Are the four philosphies, essentialism, perennialism, romanticism and progressivism the most important in education?
ReplyDeleteQuote- " The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education." MArtin Luther King,JR
Fact- Currently the Core knowledge curriculum is being used in 694 U.S. schools.
Question: Why do you think teachers don't report things like child abuse and sexual harassment more often?
ReplyDeleteFact: Not many years ago, unmarried teachers who became pregnant were routinely dismissed from their teaching positions. Similarly, once a student was discovered to be either married, pregnant, or both, she was dismissed.
Quote: Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the important ways children learn how to function in society at large.
Quote: "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
ReplyDeleteFact: Not many years ago, unmarried teachers who became pregnant were routinely dismissed from their teaching positions.
Question: If you took the self-inventory on pgs. 298-299, were you surprised at your results?
Question:
ReplyDeleteCan you effectively combine different philosophies in your classroom?
Fact:
The word philosophy is made up of two root words: Philo meaning love and sophos meaning wisdom.
Quote:
"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." - Carl Sagan
Quote: The function of education is to teach one to think intensiely and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Why is philosophy of education important?
Fact: Behaviorism is the theory of behavior modification
q. "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. one helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
ReplyDeletef. A well-educated person does not necessarily have a definite body of knowledge; rather a well-educated person is able to function well in society and life.
Q. why do people think child-centered classroom are bad?