My Philosophy on Education

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All human societies, past and present, have had an interest in education; and many have claimed that teaching is the second oldest profession. While not all societies channel sufficient resources into support for educational activities and institutions, all at the very least acknowledge their centrality; and for good reasons. Teaching, in my opinion is the first profession period. Teaching will always and forever be used until the end of time. We know that everyone is born unknowing about education, norms, and is illiterate; we do not know about the community or society as a whole. That is where teachers come in to play. Things like this must be taught, we are not born with knowledge.

Professional teachers learn their crafts with more determination than others, and so education also serves as a link between social-sorting mechanisms and undoubtedly has enormous impact on the economic fate of the individual. Put more abstractly, at its best education equips individuals with the skills and substantive knowledge that allows them to define and to pursue their own goals, and also allows them to participate in the life of their community as full-fledged, autonomous citizens. “Education and learning is the fostering of inquiry and reasoning skills that are conducive to the development of autonomy which roughly, is the tension between education as conservative and education as progressive, and also is closely related to differing views about human “perfectibility.” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/education-philosophy/

The age and grade level of my preference would be the early childhood phase ages 3-5 years. 3-5 years of age is the most important phases in development which is early childhood. This is a very crucial time in a ...

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...te measurement of the learner's understanding of the essential material.” Frequent tests are highly desirable. For motivational purposes, realists stress that it is important for the teacher always to reward the success of each learner. When the teacher reports the accomplishments of his learners, he/she reinforces what has been learned.

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