“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said‚ people will forget what you did‚ but people will never forget how you made them feel.” (Angelou‚ 2009) This is a truth that I have witnessed firsthand. As a child‚ at the tender age of seven years‚ I was blessed with an educator‚ Mrs. Cager‚ whose commitment to her students was so profound until I have never forgotten her. She made me feel like I was the most important person in her classroom. Her encouraging words instilled a level of confidence
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While extreme creationists continuously push for only the teaching of creationism instead of evolution in classrooms‚ others claim that both models should be objectively taught. Creation scientist and American Christian Henry M. Morris‚ founder of the Institution for Creation Research and the “father of modern creation science”‚ is one representative of this group (Morris). Like other creationists‚ he does not support evolution for a countless number of reasons‚ including that it is not a scientific
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Education and‚ the Role of Philosophy In The Journey through American Education “Curriculum as a field of study has been characterized as elusive‚ fragmentary and confusing” (Ornstein and Hunkins‚ 2009‚ p. 1). According to Wikipedia‚ education is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind‚ character‚ or physical ability of an individual and is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge‚ skills and values from one generation to another
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Personal Philosophy of Education I believe the purpose of education is to provide opportunities that nurture each child’s unique talent and to give every child an equal opportunity to set up a lifelong love of learning. Education should be an empowering process that allows children to develop their passions‚ critical thinking and reasoning skills through self-cultivation and the gentle guidance of an educator to help point the way. I believe that children learn best when they are taught in conditions
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Have you ever thought that cursive should be taught to students to get them ready for what they’re going to face in the real world? Cursive should be taught in schools because it’s a type of writing that might be forgotten. In the twenty first century where it is filled with electronics you might be wondering why can’t teachers use that to their advantage. People think it’s a waste of time or it’s not important enough to be taught. On the other hand other schools think that getting students ready
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Developing a Philosophy of Education I believe the purposes of education are to instill knowledge‚ instill forms of proper behavior‚ instill values and principles in the minds of children‚ and include the development of skills‚ physical‚ mental and social. Formal education begins with primary and then secondary education and higher education. It is when we grow up we begin to achieve the purpose of education and understanding of its application in daily life. It is believed that education is to be
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To start off should Shakespeare be taught in the 9th grade curriculum? Some would consider him one of the greatest english playwright and poet‚ who work has been translated into 75 languages. In my opinion Shakespeare should not be taught in the 9th grade curriculum because he is hard to understand. His plays were meant to be for entertainment‚ and is he academically necessary for today’s modern teens. First Shakespeare is hard to understand. “The trouble today is that school children don’t get it
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"...School leavers‚ the working‚ school dropouts‚ the old and young; all these people could quote or misquote Shakespeare. What mattered is that they quoted Shakespeare" Dr.Tom Odhiambo‚ author of "To quote Shakespeare used to be a mark of proper education". Most teachers in this era prefer to teach the Bard‚ while others do not. I believe that teachers should be required to read the plays of Williams Shakespeare because of the fact that they could tell others they have had the opportunity to read
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Understanding of the Educational Philosophy The philosophy of education can be referred as the academic field of applied philosophy‚ or referred to one of the educational philosophies that promote a specific type or vision of education which examines the definition‚ goals‚ and the meaning of education. As an academic field‚ its central subject is education and its method is those of philosophy. Which is it is either the process of education‚ or the discipline of the education. Part of the discipline
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*PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION “To instruct someone… is not a matter of getting him to commit results to mind. Rather‚ it is to teach him to participate in the process that makes possible the establishment of knowledge. We teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject‚ but rather to get a student to think mathematically for himself‚ to consider matters as an historian does‚ to take part in the process of knowledge-getting. Knowing is a process not a product.” (Jerome
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