2.+Philosophy+of+Education

 

=**Philosophy of Education** = =** “The Love of Wisdom” ** = = = The purpose of education is to help the pupil not only survive in life but excel past one’s own expectation. This powerful tool will encourage the person to evolve into a productive member of society. Education use is to expand our minds in an array of subject areas such as history, art, mathematics, science and literature. Education also enriches the knowledge base to render an informed life decision. Learning our history awakens us to realize what works for our lifestyle and what does not, gathering information from other cultures helps us to not judge but to understand, and art allows the imagination to soar free and create. Education entitles the mind for intense thought and critical thinking “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”- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” As a teacher I know I hold great responsibility, to educate students, for that is the future that sits in my classroom. The teacher should guide a student through the forest of knowledge, exploring a tree at a time and breaking it down branch by branch. Students should be exposed to as much material as possible but allowed to absorb the meaning and application of these subjects to the real life experiences. I want to mold critical thinkers; we live now in a society where an answer is just a click away. I want my student to work for that resolution and feel the pride in knowing they reach that goal themselves. I want to inspire, intrigue, and push the students to prove they have what it takes to succeed. They can achieve great things through academics. Prepare students with the equipment to enter the ever evolving world with confidence in the knowledge. Being the receiver we must retain, remember, and apply. The student has a large weight in this process, to listen and learn, also to stay engaged and inspired, all the while maintaining stresses of home and maturing into a well rounded individual. After formal education they have to decide a path for our life once sifting through all the subject matter we have traveled through. As a student using all my collective knowledge will guide me into a career path of possibly saving a life, constructing a building or coming full circle and taking the exquisite roll of becoming an educator themselves. No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. [|Booker T. Washington]