Touching the Minds of Tomorrow’s Leaders
By nature, children are curious. I do not agree with philosophers who believe that children are either good or evil. Instead, I believe that children want to take the world in and experience the new things life has to offer to shape their personalities. The nature of knowledge is very relevant to what point they are at in life and at what particular place. For example, if a child is raised in a place where there is nothing but put-downs, he too, will learn to put down himself and others. If a child is raised into a loving environment where independence is encouraged, he will grow up a loving, independent individual. Most learning takes place in the early years of life, therefore teaching them when they are younger is more important than waiting until early adult years. The ability to learn new things will be more difficult as children grow older.
Education should also begin with the parents. Learning the ABC’s and colors puts a child ahead in the learning process. Anything taught prior to school is an advantage. As a teacher, I want the satisfaction of knowing my students learned the basic knowledge of writing, reading, and much more.
There are many philosophies on education and they vary from subject area to disciplinary measures. One should not completely follow someone else’s example. Instead, they should base their theories on what they gain from their own experiences. Philosophies change and are often redundant in what they state. Still, they allow others to learn something they might not have ever considered before.
I feel that the purpose of education is merely to prepare children for an ever-changing world. ...
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...th. Subjects such as art, sciences, and history should be taught in connection with reading and math. Teaching elementary school students should contain math and reading, but also subjects that require the use of gross motor skills.
My philosophy of education is difficult to express in writing. But what I feel on the inside, as a learning future educator, is that students need a caring, sensitive, understanding teacher who knows personally what can go on in a student’s personal life. A teacher who has no compassion for students should not be in the educating system. But, students need someone to help them learn and to make them understand things in a way that they would probably not know unless otherwise shown. The best philosophy would be to put all students first without bias and let them know that they can make anything happen if they let it.
Education is a very broad term that can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways. Nonetheless, despite one's definition of education, it can be said that education does in fact have some sort of a purpose or goal. Personally, I feel that education has become important in our world for all individuals, yet at the same time I believe that education has different purposes depending on the grade level.
In “the Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman used that the first feminist wave, which was the period that she raised up, for the background. Especially, she used the men’s power in the book when she started to telling the story:
All throughout Scandinavian history and mythology, the prominence of weapons has not gone unnoticed by historians and scholars. The vikings, who were sea raiders, valued weaponry because of their positions as raiders. To the vikings, weapons were a part of everyday life, and every person had to have knowledge on how to use them. One could tell how much the Vikings valued their weapons by looking to the gods they worshipped and the stories they told. Tyr, Odin, and Thor were all gods of war; Beowulf, Sigurd, and Helgi were all great warriors. In fact, much of Scandinavian mythology and literature includes weapons all throughout its stories.
The Munich Massacre (5th – 6th September 1972), a planned terrorist attack happening against the backdrop of the Summer Olympics, was a key statement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that carries on to this day. The attack began when eight Palestinian terrorists killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team before taking a further nine hostage. All of the captives were killed along with five Black September members during a large fire fight. Following the massacre, the Israeli government organized retaliation, codename: Operation Wrath of God. The legacy is reflected by the large number of retaliatory deaths, overall effect upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the significant development of Counter terrorist agencies around the world.
Women were not seen in the past as they are seen now. They were seen as the weaker, less knowledgeable sex. They had to listen to their husbands and they had no say in anything. We are reminded of this when we read “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an activist for women’s rights. With this being said, I believe Gilman’s purpose for writing “The Yellow Wallpaper” was to show the readers women do have rights, this is a changing world, and women don’t have to listen to everything their husband or significant other tells them to do. She does this by the narrator symbolically seeing herself trapped inside the wallpaper and her eventually pulling the wallpaper off the wall and being able to feel free to do whatever she wants. In “Monumental feminism and literature’s ancestral house: Another look at ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” Janice Haney-Peritz, Department of English (Beaver College), states, “As a memorial, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is used to remind contemporary readers of the enduring import of the feminist struggle against patriarchical domination; while as a boundary marker, it is used to demarcate the territory appropriate to a feminist literary criticism” (114).
The Viking Raids began in 793 AD, when Scandinavian Norsemen explored Europe for its oceans and rivers for trade. The Vikings attacked the Christian monastery at Lindisfarne in Northumbri. The Vikings were very smart about how and when they attacked. The Vikings used a variety of weapons when they fought, such as swords and axes. The Battle of Stamford Bridge ended the Viking raids.
The Vikings were a group of Scandinavian raiders that were around from about the 8th century to the 11th. They mainly attacked the British Islands , the Frankish empire, England, but they also plundered places such as the Iberian peninsula and northern Africa. Vikings did not always settle into the places that they found, for instance after exploring North America they left the place never to return again. Even so, after landing on Greenland they colonized themselves there, and ancestors of the Vikings still live there today. So now that you know a little about the history of the Vikings lets go into detail about the specifics of the Viking age. (Peter Sawyer, Oxford Ill. History of the Vikings p. 1-19)
My personal philosophy of education is centered on my desire to help students accomplish lifelong goals, and to help them understand and function in the world they live in. I want students to learn academic material and develop the ability to relate that material to their lives productively. The school I teach at promotes academic rigor, which I feel is very important, but I prefer to promote academic in addition to social rigor due to my students and their disabilities. Education should be all about developing the mind to letting students just be themselves (Wiles & Bondi, 2007). My philosophy of education relates more towards realism, idealism, and experimentalist, in which I believe connects with the style of education I learned as a child and the type of educational system that I teach in now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses this story to make strong-minded statements about feminism and individuality. Gilman does this by taking us through the terrors of the narrator’s neurosis. Her state of mind seems characterized by her encounters with the yellow wallpaper in her room.
I believe that the purpose of education is to produce the next generation of leaders who are intelligent and have great character. This idea is supported in the article “The Purpose of Education” by Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist who fought for black and white people to have equal rights in America. He writes about the true purpose, and meaning of education in the article by saying, “Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction (MLK1).” This quote from the article explains that being academically educated is very important. It will help people stand up, be a leader, and take charge to make the world a better place for everyone. That gallant leader will argue against the fallacy, lies,
I knew very early in life that I enjoyed working with children; I am drawn to their eagerness to learn, their trusting nature, and their inquisitive minds. It has always been a joy for me to be around children, who are eager to learn. Children are thrilled when an adult takes time to read to them. After hearing a story only a couple of times, they are like a tape recorder set on replay. Their thirst for knowledge is overwhelming. At the elementary level, children also tend to have a very trusting nature. They rely heavily on their elders for guidance. Most children are very honest with their feelings and don't try to hide them. This is a crucial time in a child's life; it is a time when teachers and parents should be molding them for the future. It seems their minds are always working on something which makes them extremely inquisitive. Their curiosities seem never to be satisfied. Children are always asking "why?" even when they know the answer. The inquisitive child wants to know the how's, when's, and where's of everything.
To begin with, schools that incorporate the art integration within their academics has demonstrated a higher student performance in their math, English, and reading skills. Children who start their first years of school in Preschool and Kindergarten start off by learning their ABC’s and 123’s. Children
Every educator has their own thoughts and ideas about education, educational processes, and what they feel is the best way to educate students of today and tomorrow. These philosophies are built on the individual’s personal experiences and beliefs. My philosophy is like that of many new teachers, eclectic. There are ideas of many philosophies that I agree with and just as many that I disagree with. Teachers are as diverse as the students they teach. I believe that it takes a combination of several philosophies to reach each student in a classroom.
I believe that the overall purpose of education is to prepare for the future. The world is becoming more technologically advanced each day. Education is important to completely understand these new concepts. Education is the key to a successful and fulfilling life. The purpose is to give each child the equal opp...
Education is a very important aspect of our lives. It is our education that makes us who we are and determines what we become. Therefore, education is not something to be taken lightly. As a teacher, my goal will be to provide the best possible education for my students. Every student is unique. I must see students for who they are individually and respect their ideas and opinions. Each student has a different learning style. I must take this into consideration because I want to provide a constructive learning opportunity for every student. I believe that every student has the potential to learn.