The document discusses idealism in education through several topics: 1. The rationale for schools is that they provide a cultural and social setting necessary for humans to fully develop as social beings. 2. The teacher plays a key role by setting the learning environment and bringing out ideas in students' minds to help them progress to new levels of understanding and ultimately be transformed. 3. The objectives of education include helping individuals and society by cultivating harmonious personalities, sharing cultural heritage with youth, and embracing ideals that benefit both self and community.

1. IDEALISM IN
EDUCATION

2. Rationale:
Existence of School
Man can only be made man by
a cultural birth. This formation
can be made possible through
education.
Education must exist because
there is a need for a human to
witness the fullness of his life.

3. Rationale:
Existence of School
Man is a “socius”, the man
must have a social setting to
become a man.
The school serve as value-
realizing institution.

4. The Teacher
The teacher is the key to the
educative process.
The teacher sets the
character of the environment
in which learning takes
place.

5. The Teacher
Role of the teacher is
to bring out what is
already in student’s
mind: reminiscence

6. The Teacher
Analyze and discuss
ideas with students so that
students can move to new
levels of awareness so
that they can ultimately be
transformed.

7. The Learner
Every learner is a
unique person
Every learner is in the
process of becoming

8. Objectives of Education
The search for truth
through ideas…with truth
comes responsibility to
enlighten others,
“education is
transformation: Ideas can
change lives.”

9. Objectives: Individual
 Help individual to live
rich and significant lives.
 Build harmonious and
colorful personalities.
 Help other people to live
superior life.

10. Objectives: Society
1. Communication of the type-
heritage as a gift to the young
generation.
2. Provision for growth beyond the
type- letting the youth learn on
their own.
3. Synthesis- embracing ideals for
self and society.

11. Methods of Instruction
Lecture from time to time, but
primary method of teaching is
the dialectic…discuss, analyze,
synthesize, and apply what they
have read to contemporary
society.

12. Methods of Instruction
Curriculum give importance
to the study of the classics…
many support a back to the
basics approach to
education.