Philosopical Thoughts in Education......

1. PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS
ON EDUCATION

2. PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS ON
EDUCATION
Philosophical thoughts of education help you
realize:
- Building interpersonal relationship and
- Engaging in reflection and meaningful
discourse during the teaching – learning
process

5. BANKING METHOD
- Traditional approach in teaching
- Store and remember information by teachers
- Empty receptacles of learning
- World is seen as static and unchangeable
and students should fit in it as it is.

6. ISOLATED FACTS
- Facts are important
- Mile wide inch deep kind of learning
- However, with this banking system in
education there is too much teaching, not
enough learning

8. PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS
ON EDUCATION

9. PAULO FRIERE: CRITICAL
PEDAGOGY
- Believed that systems must be
changed to overcome oppression
and improved human condition.
- Education and literacy are the
vehicles for social change.

10. PAULO FRIERE: CRITICAL
PEDAGOGY
- Teaching and learning as a process of
inquiry in which the child must invent
and reinvent the world.
- Teachers must not see themselves as
sole possessors of knowledge and their
students as empty receptacles.

11. PAULO FRIERE: CRITICAL
PEDAGOGY
- Friere’s critical pedagogy is problem-
posing education wherein the central
element is dialogue.
- Dialogue is the basis for critical and
problem-posing pedagogy, as opposed
to banking education, where there is no
discussion, only the imposition of the
teacher’s idea on the students.

12. HERBERT SPENCER: UTILITARIAN
EDUCATION
- Spencer’s concept of “survival of the fittest”
- Social development had taken place according to an
evolutionary process by which simple homogenous
societies had evolved to more complex societal
systems characterized by humanistic and classical
education.

13. HERBERT SPENCER: UTILITARIAN
EDUCATION
- Industrialized society require vocational and
professional education
- Curriculum - practical, utilitarian and scientific
subjects.
- Not rote learning; schooling must be related to life
and to the activities need to earn a living.

14. HERBERT SPENCER: UTILITARIAN
EDUCATION
- Curriculum must be arranged according to their
contribution to human survival and progress.
- Science and other subjects that sustained human life
and prosperity should have curricular priority since
it aids in the performance of life activities.
- Individual competition leads to social progress. He
who is the fittest survives.

15. SPECIALIZED EDUCATION
OF SPENCER
VS
GENERAL EDUCATION

16. SPENCER’S EDUCATIONAL
THEORY IS CALLED
“SOCIAL DARWINISM”.
WHY?

17. JOHN LOCKE: EMPIRICIST EDUCATOR
- Empiricism – knowledge is based on one’s
experience
- Child was born as Tabula Rasa “Blank Slate”
- Child is neither inherently good nor bad – child
character is based on his experience

18. JOHN LOCKE: EMPIRICIST EDUCATOR
- Nature vs Nurture (give emphasis)
- The role of the teacher is very crucial in making or
breaking the child
- Questioned the traditional view that knowledge came
exclusively from literary source (Greek or Latin)

19. JOHN LOCKE: EMPIRICIST EDUCATOR
- Learners learn from authentic experiences and they
are active agent of their own learning
- Negated “divine rights of the kings” – No one is
destined to be a ruler forever.

20. “LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE
GOVERNMENT”.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WILL
JOHN LOCKE AGREE?
JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWER.